The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills

“This is an important book; it is a necessary book. It comprehensively addresses the rapidly expanding role of the project manager, a role that is striving to keep up with the corresponding expansion in the definition of project success.”—from the Foreword by Michael O'BrochtaThis new edition of a classic, bestselling guide addresses the soft project management skills that are so essential to successful project, program, and portfolio management. Mastering leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management, and organizational politics has always been key to project manager success. This book demonstrates the why and how of creatively applying soft project management skills in these areas and shows how to develop, adjust, and hone these skills given the forces and trends in today's business world.Using real-world stories and case studies to model how to implement these skills, Englund and Bucero illustrate how the right mix of soft and hard professional skills can help create an environment that supports greater project success. This second edition features new sections on agile project management, ethics, business analysis, management across generations and between cultures, and more. It maps well to recent topic updates in the sixth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.This book is a valuable manual for all the complex interpersonal skills necessary for project managers' success and will help them develop a more complete portfolio of skills, knowledge, and attitudes to serve as road maps to greater project success.

About the Author

Randall L. Englund, MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CBM, is an author, speaker, trainer, professional facilitator, and consultant for the Englund Project Management Consultancy. He was part of the Project Management Initiative at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for 22 years, after working 10 years in field service for GE. He is the author of seven books on project management, and is the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute. Alfonso Bucero is the founder and managing partner of BUCERO PM Consulting (www.abucero.com). He was a senior project manager at Hewlett-Packard Spain for 13 years. He was also the founder, sponsor, and president of PMI Barcelona Spain Chapter. He is the author or coauthor of several project management books. The Project Management Institute gave Alfonso its Distinguished Contribution Award in 2010 and named him a PMI Fellow in 2011. He was also the recipient of PMI’s 2015 Eric Jennet Award for Excellence.