http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2003/08/characteristics-of-great-project-managers.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2003/08/characteristics-of-great-project-managers.html/comment-page-1#comment-72901 Characteristics of Great Project Managers - PM Hut Sun, 02 May 2010 16:17:08 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8325#comment-72901 [...] The original article can be found at: http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2003/08/characteristics-of-great-project-managers.html [...] [...] The original article can be found at: http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2003/08/characteristics-of-great-project-managers.html [...]

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2003/08/characteristics-of-great-project-managers.html/comment-page-1#comment-5 Ron Ruble Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:21:25 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8325#comment-5 Regarding "Characteristics of Great Project Managers", there's another thing there, but I'm not sure how to phrase it. For lack of a better description, call it 'the knack for facilitating conflict resolution'. Some people are fundamentally unable to resolve certain types of conflicts, especially those that involve giving something up; like sacrificing feature A to keep delivery date B. Good PMs facilitate this process. This is more than negotiation; I'm talking about the ability to help resolve the conflict where one party does not wish to condede something, and is only interested in getting the other parties to acquiesce. Regarding “Characteristics of Great Project Managers”, there’s another thing there, but I’m not sure how to phrase it. For lack of a better description, call it ‘the knack for facilitating conflict resolution’. Some people are fundamentally unable to resolve certain types of conflicts, especially those that involve giving something up; like sacrificing feature A to keep delivery date B. Good PMs facilitate this process. This is more than negotiation; I’m talking about the ability to help resolve the conflict where one party does not wish to condede something, and is only interested in getting the other parties to acquiesce.

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