As we all know, economic slowdown of 2008-2009, has forced businesses to rethink about their spending. Organizations today, want to check that every penny spent will deliver some value for the businesses. In order to ensure value delivered for every penny, businesses are increasingly relying on project management professionals to deliver projects more predictably. This wouldn’t be a challenge for skilled and experienced project managers but if other project managers (or to be) are not going to acknowledge and change themselves to changing dynamics of business or nt acquire project management skills, they are going to be left behind or go out of business.

1. 8 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS THAT ARE IN HIGH
DEMAND | PROJECT MANAGEMENT ROUNDUP
8 project management skills in high demand
As we all know, economic slowdown of 2008-
2009, has forced businesses to rethink about their spending. Organizatio
ns today, want to check that every penny spent will deliver some value f
or the businesses. In order to ensure value delivered for every penny, bu
sinesses are increasingly relying on project management professionals t
o deliver projects more predictably.
This wouldn’t be a challenge for skilled and experienced project manage
rs but if other project managers (or to be) are not going to acknowledge
and change themselves to changing dynamics of business or nt acquire
project management.
skills, they are going to be left behind or go out of business. Let’s look at
what CIO online thinks about 8 project management skills that are in hig
h demand today. Also these project management skills
will serve as a good checklist for interviewers for finding candidate-
company fit in a longer run.

2. 1. Not only people skill but also technical project management skills a
re required
2. Excellent inter-personal and professional communication skills
3. Ability to lead team, project through all kinds of situations
4. Change management and organizational development expertise
5. More involvement and acumen of strategic business management
6. Ability to resolve conflict, navigate project team towards common g
oal
7. Qualities like being adaptive and unflappability in difficult situations
8. Exceptional facilitation skills
How to plan for your first project manager role
Those who are entering the professional career of project management,
and getting ready for their first ever project management role, here is a li
st of things you will have to keep in mind in order to succeed. This article
will help you in improving your chances of making your stint as project
manager successful role, by planning following basic components of a pr
oject.

3. 1. People
2. Project Management Tool
3. Metrics, Checkpoint, Condition Monitoring
4. Business Objectives Definition
5. Sponsors
6. Communications
Read more about planning your first project manager role.
Project Management as an Actual Career Choice: Discuss
An interesting discussion topic in today’s time. Choosing project manage
ment as a career is no more a fancy thing, academically or career progre
ssion-
wise, project management is considered to be an enriching career choic
e. Of course it means lot of responsibilities, accountability, constant inter
action, follow ups, facing conflicting situations, people issues, communic
ation challenges, and lot more. Above all, as the article says, project ma
nagement is really about keep moving forward and learning to keep hea
ds above water. You can follow this discussion for more views.
Project Management Software for Professional Services Companies
Project management software for professional services organization is n
ecessity than a wishful thinking. In cut-
throat competition, rising resource cost, professional services companies
wants to stay ahead of the competition. They want to increase bilability,
which means, they would like to see more consultants being deployed/bil
led, meaning more resource utilization, which in turn requires proper cap
acity planning. In order to do right capacity planning, director or vice pres
ident of these companies need to ensure they have clear visibility of all c

4. onsultants or technical, support resources across all projects. It means
organization needs more than project management skills, to manage
project better.
Project management software like ZilicusPM gives the clear visibility into
resources load, capacity, billing, cost and margin. It is simple to use,
can be used on the go, enables team members to know pending tasks,
issues, they can submit timesheet, expenses, collaborate with client.
About Zilicus
Zilicus offers All-In-One project management software ZilicusPM that
provides complete project management control for project and portfolio
managers; at the same time makes it really simple forproject
team members to stay on top of things. If you have been managing
projects with conventional spreadsheet/ MS Excel templates or emails, it
is the right time to start using online project portfolio management
software. ZilicusPM is great platform for better project collaboration.
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