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Tackling Project Management Skills

In our last post we discussed the relationship between the project management skills of an organization to a successful project management software implementation. Read it here. We discussed how project management software is a tool to help improve project management discipline to accomplish key strategic goals. But the software works alongside of good processes to do that.

First, let's talk about training. Training is probably the first thing that people think about. Sending key personnel to a training course can be helpful if it is done strategically. Just sending someone to a class and expecting your project management woes to be solved is like buying some software and also expecting they will be magically solved. Think longer term. Who is the best person? What type of course do they need? If the desire is for project management to permeate the organization, who can learn this stuff and also pass it on to others in the organization.

Make sure you attend the right training. A popular form of training out there is PMP Certification Training. This is project management training designed to help the student pass their Project Management Professional (PMP) certification test. That may work well if you are serious about this and want someone well versed in project management that is certified. But be sure this person also has the experience to go along with it.