Roles
The person who creates schedules, manages risks, and ensures deliverables meet stakeholder expectations.
Project Manager
This PMI publication outlines globally recognized standards and best practices for managing projects.
Project Management Book of Knowledge
This type of project often involves coding, user interface design, and system integration.
Software
This skill helps project managers track tasks, deadlines, and deliverables without letting anything slip through the cracks.
Detail Oriented, Organized
Typically defined by phases such as initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, and closing.
Project LifeCycle
This professional bridges the gap between business needs and technical solutions, often by gathering requirements and analyzing processes.
Business Analyst
Project managers rely on this area to track spending, forecast future costs, and prevent budget overruns.
Cost Management
The type of projects that was the original basis for forming the Project Management Institute
Construction
This PM skill inspires team members, builds trust, and keeps everyone moving in the same direction.
Leadership
This type of project manager learns PM skills on the job while juggling their regular responsibilities.
Accidental Project Manager
While project managers deliver outputs, this role ensures the right projects are chosen in the first place.
Portfolio Manager
This area includes stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and training to ensure new solutions are adopted successfully.
Change Management
This project type still requires planning, scheduling, budgeting, and risk awareness, even though the “stakeholder” is just you.
Personal
The ability a project manager uses to understand their own emotions and respond calmly and constructively to others.
Emotional Intelligence
Examples include risk registers, requirements documents, meeting minutes, and change logs.
Artifacts
In mature organizations, this role drives capability development, oversees resource management, and enforces governance across programs and projects.
PMO Manager
This practice ensures threats are minimized, opportunities are leveraged, and overall project uncertainty is systematically controlled.
Risk Management
The effort to analyze how work is done today and redesign it for better performance.
Process Improvement
This competency includes active listening, tailoring messages to audiences, and choosing the right channel for the message.
Communication
The four stages a project team typically moves through as they learn to work together effectively.
Forming, Storming, Norming, Growing (or Performing)
Part coach, part mediator, part obstacle‑crusher—this role keeps the sprint moving even when chaos tries to sneak in.
Scrum Master
This code requires project managers to avoid conflicts of interest, tell the truth, and act in the best interest of stakeholders.
PMI Code of Ethics
Characterized by market research, prototyping, testing, and cross‑functional collaboration, this project brings innovation to life.
New product
A project manager relies on this skill to run workshops, resolve misunderstandings, and help the team reach consensus.
Facilitation
This artifact is owned by the product owner and continuously refined to ensure the most valuable work is done first.
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