Is Project Management really People Management??

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Gaurav Kukreja SAP ERP consultant / IT Project Manager| Florida Department of Revenue Tallahassee, Fl, United States

Managing project is off course an art, but setting expectations with stakeholder and managing resources can be very challenging, specially with never changing requirements and scope creeps.

Do you think if you can manage the people well, you can manage the project great?

Posted: Mar 19, 2019 5:30 PM

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Adrian Carlogea Australia

It depends on your understanding of the term. Usually companies consider people managers only the employees that have direct reports Most PMs don't have direct reports and as such are not considered people managers, at least not by this definition.

Posted: Apr 3, 2019 5:09 PM

Gordon Alexander Senior Principal - Global Programme Director| Indepndent Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom

Mar 20, 2019 8:20 AM

Replying to Eric Simms

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No. I've seen people who can earn people's respect and obedience, yet who lack the organizational skills to manage a project well. The ability to manage people is part of project management, but it alone doesn't guarantee a person will be able to successfully manage a project.

I agree with Erics comments on this

Posted: Apr 10, 2019 11:11 AM

Gordon Alexander Senior Principal - Global Programme Director| Indepndent Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom

I think you can have great soft skills and be a great manager but not be a good PM without at all the other PM skills. What you cant be is a successful PM without the soft skills.

Posted: Apr 10, 2019 11:14 AM

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