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Soft skills needed in the ICT project management – classification and maturity level assessment

Soft skills needed in the ICT project management – classification and maturity level assessment Numerous surveys proved that people are the main cause of failure and challenges of the ICT projects. Project manager skills to handle humans are essential to success of those endeavours. In this paper, authors investigate the awareness of soft skills understanding by project management practitioners and researchers. The analysis of 234 job advertisements for project managers published in Switzerland, Poland and Thailand, displayed significant deviation of demanded skills as compared with the evaluation of 29 journal publications and 46 books on project management. Mapping of recognised skills to the human factors processes of L-Timer® project management system and assessment of skills maturity in accordance to Blooms’ taxonomy explains their complexity. Same time the relatively shallow insight of practitioners and researchers into soft skills awareness is exposed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies Inderscience Publishers

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Publisher
Inderscience Publishers
Copyright
Copyright © Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. All rights reserved
ISSN
1751-0589
eISSN
1751-0597
DOI
10.1504/IJASS.2012.051133
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Abstract

Numerous surveys proved that people are the main cause of failure and challenges of the ICT projects. Project manager skills to handle humans are essential to success of those endeavours. In this paper, authors investigate the awareness of soft skills understanding by project management practitioners and researchers. The analysis of 234 job advertisements for project managers published in Switzerland, Poland and Thailand, displayed significant deviation of demanded skills as compared with the evaluation of 29 journal publications and 46 books on project management. Mapping of recognised skills to the human factors processes of L-Timer® project management system and assessment of skills maturity in accordance to Blooms’ taxonomy explains their complexity. Same time the relatively shallow insight of practitioners and researchers into soft skills awareness is exposed.

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International Journal of Applied Systemic StudiesInderscience Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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