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What is more important for leading projects?

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Edward Hickland Owner| Hickland & Associate Merrick, Ny, United States
When thinking about what you see as important in leading projects what would you say is most important?

Project management training?
Experience with the subject of the project?
Experience leading projects?
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Jesus Martheyn Project Manager SR Lvl 2| Globant Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
In my opinion, you new of those three options. But I can organize them in this important way:

Project management training
Experience leading projects
Experience with the subject of the project
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Hard to definitively list out. Many facets come together as the foundation for project management; skills, experience, knowledge, etc., reaching even past professional experience into personal life experiences.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Interpersonal skills - projects are delivered through the hard work of talented people and if you can't inspire them to perform, no amount of PM expertise or domain knowledge can help.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Experience in leading projects is the most important because with experience, you will have high level of leadership and interpersonal skills.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
All of them.
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
All of them are important plus inter personnel skills!!!
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Tiago Romao Project Manager - PfMP | PgMP | PMP | ACP | PBA | CBAP | CSM | MSc.| Altice Portugal | Meo Sobreda, Setubal/Almada, Portugal
All, technical and soft skills.
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Ashok Kumar Herndon, Va, United States
All of them helps. But, the project management is about 'walking the path', which is more than sum of PM knowledge and related domain experience. The leadership role (guiding resources to right use, taking calculated risk, etc.) is key factor.
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Eric Simms Senior Program Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States
'Experience leading projects' is most important. Project management training is useful, but practical experience is much more instructive than book learning – this is why people with advanced Project Management degrees but no work experience aren’t trusted to lead multi-million dollar projects. Experience with the subject of the project is rarely necessary since subject matter experts can provide that knowledge.
Project Management is a subject that can only be learned through experience, as it has so many nuances that vary between industries, organizations and even projects within an organization that it’s impossible to teach everything in a classroom setting.
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Girija Ramakrishnan Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Edward -

All of them and experience in leading the projects is very vital.

But if a person is a quick & smart learner with very good interpersonal skills (like Kiron mentioned) he/she can lead projects exceptionally well, even without all these 3.
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