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Database of Project Skills (120 Entries)

Project skills are the abilities and knowledge required to lead, manage or contribute to a project. These include specific skills such as particular project methodologies and software and generalist skills such as managing stakeholder expectations.

All (122)

Project Leadership (19)

Project Management (31)

Project Analysis (21)

Organizational Skills (12)

Team Skills (12)

Technical Skills (15)

Quality Management (14)

Agile	Benchmarking
Budgeting	Business Case Development
Calendar Management	Change Control
Change Management	Coding
Collaboration Tools	Communication Planning
Conflict Resolution	Continuous Delivery (CD)
Continuous Integration (CI)	Cost Management
Cost-Benefit Analysis	Critical Path Analysis
Cross-functional Collaboration	Data Modeling
Databases	Decision Making
Decision Modeling	Defect Tracking
DevOps	Document Organization
Earned Value Management	Ensuring Project Success
Estimates	Event Planning
Expectation Management	Facilitation Skills
Feasibility Studies	Financial Controls
Financial Reporting	Forecasting
Gantt Charts	Gap Analysis
Goal Setting	Governance Frameworks
Identifying Constraints and Assumptions	Impact Analysis
Issue Clearing	KPI Development
Lessons Learned Analysis	Machine Learning
Market Analysis	Meeting Management
Milestone Tracking	Operational Planning
PMP	Peer Review
Performance Analysis	Performance Improvement
Performance Management	Performance Monitoring
Presentation Skills	Prioritization
Problem Analysis	Problem Solving
Process Mapping	Procurement
Program Management	Project Audit
Project Charters	Project Closure
Project Communication	Project Controls
Project Evaluation	Project Governance
Project Integration Management	Project Lifecycle Management
Project Management Methodologies	Project Management Software
Project Oversight	Project Planning
Project Portfolio Management	Project Promotion
Project Reporting	Project Risk Management
Project Scheduling	Quality Analysis
Quality Assurance	Quality Auditing
Quality Control	Quality Metrics
Quality Planning	Quality Reporting
Quality Standards	Record Keeping
Regulatory Compliance	Request For Proposals
Requirements Gathering	Resource Allocation
Return on Investment Analysis	Risk Analysis
Risk Identification	Root Cause Analysis
SWOT Analysis	Scheduling
Scope Management	Scripting
Software Development	Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Buy-in	Stakeholder Engagement
Strategic Alignment	Strategic Planning
Subject Matter Experts	System Architecture
System Design	Team Coordination
Technical Proficiency	Test Cases
Test Plans	Time Tracking
User Acceptance Testing	Variance Analysis
Vendor Evaluations	Vendor Management
Version Control Systems	Vision Communication
Waterfall	Work Breakdown Structure

Project Leadership

The capacity to lead and govern a project including the ability of the project sponsor to sell the project to your organization and to overcome resistance to change. This includes some awkwardly worded skills such as "ensuring project success" that are high level executive talents.

Project Management

Project management skills include specific skills aligned to a project approach or methodology such as creating a work breakdown structure. Project managers also require well-developed soft skills such as influencing. It also helps to have some depth of experience managing projects to preempt the various ways projects can go off the rails. This is captured with skills such as "scope management" and "stakeholder engagement" whereby a project manager seeks to control scope, manage stakeholder expectations and work with agents of change to move things forward.

Project Analysis

The systematic analysis skills required to develop project artifacts such as estimates or return on investment forecasts.

Organizational Skills

General organizational skills such as planning a project kick-off event or managing project meetings.

Team Skills

Team skills that apply to all project contributors such as cross-functional collaboration and problem solving.

Technical Skills

A few basic technical skills are listed that mostly apply to IT projects. All projects typically require basic technical proficiency such as using collaboration and communication tools.