| Project management career advice |
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| The job of project manager |
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managers are catalysers. They see projects through to successful completion and
coordinate all the players concerned by a project, for both its implementation
and its deliverables. They manage project impacts while the work is under way
and after completion. |  |
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| Project manager skills |
| The teams involved on a project
are often quite varied, including personnel across all levels and divisions.
Relationship management, leadership, negotiating expertise and conflict
resolution abilities are essential to rally all the players around the same
objective... |  |
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| Place of the project manager within the company |
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managers can work for the functional department in question, a centralized
project office, or both entities at the same time. It all depends on what is
usually done in the sector, the strategic aspects of the project, corporate
culture and defined priorities. |  |
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| The Project Management Institute |
The
Project Management Institute is an
international, non-profit professional
association representing project managers. Organized into 200 chapters in 125 countries, PMI now
has 200,000 members from a variety
of sectors including aerospace, automotive, business management, construction,
engineering, financial services, information technology, pharmaceutical and
telecommunications.
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| Interview with Michael Burns, president of 180 Systems |
 An accredited project management professional (PMP), Michael Burns harnesses his project managements skills for companies planning the implementation of new computer systems. 180 Systems considers that the manager's role conditions a project's success.
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