Bridging the PM Competency Gap

Rapidly evolving technologies, global business interdependences, and changes to processes and tools have led to project management competency gaps in many firms. This book provides proven strategic approaches needed to grow and evolve your project managers' competencies, in step with the needs of your business. Key Features, Presents several strategic approaches to establishing a continuous learning environment to advance project managers' competencies not only in proven methodologies and techniques, but in emerging tools, cultural challenges, business acumen, and required leadership skills, Provides guidelines for planning the continuous learning environment selected, and metrics to track effectiveness of competency development techniques, from peer reviews and jury boards, to project KPIs and dashboards, Describes tactical options for implementing competency development as part of organizational culture, leveraging internal and industry-based expertise and tools for virtual collaborative knowledge sharing, Illustrates methods for ensuring the competency model remains current to align your project managers' skill sets and maturity level with the changing needs of the business, WV offers downloadable templates and assessment tools-available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com