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Critical skills for IT project management and how they are learned

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SIGMIS CPR '09: Proceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research

Pages 103 - 112

https://doi.org/10.1145/1542130.1542152

Published: 28 May 2009 Publication History

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What do IT project managers consider to be the critical skills necessary for project success, and how have they developed those skills? The aim of this research has been to answer these questions. We interviewed thirteen experienced IT project managers from five organizations, focusing first on what the managers perceived as their most critical project management skills, and then on how they had developed those skills. We also discussed their exposure to a wide variety of organizational development interventions. By focusing on how project managers actually learned critical skills, we have been able to uncover the importance of informal learning channels, often involving project experiences, for the development of IT project management skills.

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1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management

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SIGMIS CPR '09: Proceedings of the special interest group on management information system's 47th annual conference on Computer personnel research

May 2009

242 pages

ISBN:9781605584270

DOI:10.1145/1542130

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University of Limerick, Ireland
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University of Limerick, Ireland
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