IT project management. It sounds really professional and technical. I could only think of it is related to computer but nothing else. This is how I thought before taking this course or even before searching information about this position. Based on my research, I found the predominant skills required for this position is not so difficult than I thought.
I picked these job titles for my research.
- IT application portfolio manager/ Project manager
- IT project manager
- IT project manager, business analyst
- Oracle/Seibel project manager
- Project manager IT infrastructure
Here are the requirements these company look for.
Manager’s skills
- Keep abreast of Industry trends and development.
- Excellent leadership, management and negotiation skills.
- Excellent inter-personal skills and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong sales and marketing skills.
- Ability to act as an agent of change.
- Excellent planning and organization skills.
- Lead, manage and motivate highly skilled professional people.
You could see these requirements for any kind of management job or even for the regular office job. They are too common to see on job postings and nothing too special.
Project management skills
- Expert consultancy in Project management processes.
- Develop strategy and plan for the rollout of standard company project management process and project life cycle.
- Lead the development of strategies, standards and guidelines for project management improvement initiatives.
- Accountable for the successful deployment of project management process improvement initiatives, ensuring target goals and objectives are met through monitoring of the progress and continuous enhancements to the deployment process.
- Lead the development and delivery of training courses for all project management process improvement initiatives.
- Manage the provision of quality project summary reports to executives and senior management.
- Lead the execution of process compliance checks across all projects to monitor and report on the effectiveness and compliance of all.
- Identify/Propose improvement opportunities and participate in the development and maintenance of project management.
Most of these skills are come from experiences. You can not earn these skills from educations. You try it and find out how to take the initiatives and judge the processes.
Experiences
- Project management experience which minimum of three years is along with excellent time management skills and a proven track record for meeting project deadlines.
- Excellent project management skills with 5+ years of project management experience in managing medium to high complexity projects.
- Experienced in the development and rollout of cross-functional processes.
- Strong knowledge of project management institute best practices.
- In-depth knowledge of project management processes, PM tools, and the project life cycle.
- Bachelor degree. (not identified the major)
These requirements are for IT project management but it is kind of general. So, company look for the person who has certain level of knowledge of IT project management however, it is not so specific.
According to my research, I figure out the education is not so important to become an IT project manager. The IT project manager needs to have a general basic knowledge of the related industry of the company and IT project management plus a plenty of work experience and project management skills which earns from experience.
1 comment:
1. I agree with your opinions. i was also thinking that project managers should have strong leadership, and enough experience.
But i think education is also important components because there are lots of highly educated cadidates who want to project management. it is so competitive.
I believe you can be one of them in near future.
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