18 Key Project Management Skills To Develop In 2024

Soft Skills, Hard Skills, Agile Skills

Agile Admiral - Gabor Stramb

Jan 15, 2024

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Agenda:

✍️ Quote of the Week

📐 18 Key Project Management Skills To Develop In 2024

🔮 Weekly Study Group is HUGE

✍️ Quote of the Week

“If we use busy as an excuse for not doing something what we are really, really saying is that it’s not a priority. Simply put: You don’t find the time to do something; you make the time to do things.”

From Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss.

📐 18 Key Project Management Skills To Develop In 2024

Project management skill set is a combination of soft skills, hard skills and agile skills(as of 2024).

To be successful in the career path, You have to evolve and rapidly adapt. Here, I will summarize the skills which can help you to deliver successful projects.

🐔6 Essential Soft Skills for Project Managers

1. Leadership

Seeing what could be, the big picture, and leading & inspiring others.

2. Communication

The ability to understand and be understood by people from varying backgrounds.

3. Organization

Bringing order to chaos, sorting things out, & staying on top of everything.

4. Prioritization

The ability to do the right thing, at the right time.

5. Teamwork

The ability to make teams work, reading emotions and motivations effectively.

6. Creativity

The ability to see things differently and approach things uniquely.

♟️ 6 Essential Hard Skills for Project Managers

1. Project planning

The “bread and butter” of project management. Without plans, there are no projects.

2. Project scheduling

Building a “promise” and keeping this “promise”.

3. Project control

Keep things under control: cost, schedule, scope, stakeholders and management. This goes hand-in-hand to being analytical.

4. Risk management

Knowing, “how this can go wrong” and owning the responsibility of next steps. The more you do it, the better you will get.

5. Managing processes

This is the skill of managing how to run and optimize your project processes around resourcing/delivery/reporting etc…

6. Managing tasks

Breaking WBS into tangible pieces which can be assigned to the resource. Easy to track and is not an overkill on a daily basis for PMs.

🤼 6 Essential Agile Skills for Project Managers

1. Knowing Scrum

Scrum is the most common Agile delivery method. Having a good understanding will give you an advantage.

2. Problem solving

Managing all obstacles, errors and impediments. Focus on ownership.

3. Building team

Providing the encouragement and motivation to make sure the team can go beyond what is expected.

4. Change management

Be positive and embrace the fact that there will be changes.

5. Create the “right” environment

Work culture and workplace has a huge impact on career growth and retainment of resources.

6. Coaching

Coaching is a skill which can be used day-to-day to embrace the agile mindset and be positive about changes

🔮 Weekly Study Group is HUGE

Last week alone we had 83 people joining live.

FYI - Study group is not a course and not a training either. Anyone can join, even if you just get started or in the “middle” and/or two days away from the exam.

Here are the key benefits of learning in group

☝️ Share diverse perspectives

☝️ Pool knowledge and skills

☝️ Hold one another accountable

☝️ Receive social support and encouragement to take risks

☝️ Develop new approaches to resolving differences