Trying Not to Fall Off The PMI Talent Triangle^® Stool

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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How balanced are you as a project manager? By that, I mean how many legs of the The PMI Talent Triangle^® stool do you possess? Are you firmly planted on all three legs, or are you somewhat precariously balanced on two of them? In a “not-so-bad” case scenario, you may only have one leg that is slightly shorter than the others and can shore it up as needed to keep yourself upright.

The competencies of technical project management, leadership, and strategic and business management all need each other to create a strong foundation and not a rickety platform. But let’s suppose that like the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, you take one of those ingredients away from your professional recipe. Just what kind of PM would you be if you were lacking in one of these pivotal components?

Without Technical Project Management
If you only possessed skills in leadership as well as strategic and business management, it would be surprising that you even ventured into the field of project management—let alone one with technical challenges. Without the special abilities to oversee projects, you might be able to direct small-scale initiatives (point and do), but you would be very dependent upon others to volunteer for task assignments and to work with each other for important scheduling-dependent activities like testing, releases, communication and so forth.

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