PM critical competency index: IT execs prefer soft skills

Stevenson, Deborah; Starkweather, Jo Ann

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2009.11.008

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“…Soft skills are a cluster of sets of skills that influence the way in which people perceive, plan and execute tasks or duties within an SDP [2]. The research that was conducted by Stevenson and Starkweather [12] indicated that senior managers and company executives prefer soft skills compared to technical skills when appointing personnel. Their research indicates that soft skills are indeed important.…”

Section: A Skills For Software Project Stakeholdersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These two sets of skills have a positive impact on the job performance of an individual. A positive job performance of an individual has a positive impact in delivering a successful SDP [12].…”

Section: A Skills For Software Project Stakeholdersmentioning

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“…Although a previous researcher mentions that there is a high demand of research in the field of soft skills within SDPs, there are researchers such as Stevenson and Starkweather [12] who have already conducting it. The only weakness with their research is using a limited number of soft skills which are found in the advertisement for different roles in SDP teams for recruitment purposes.…”

Section: B Causes Of Software Project Failurementioning

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“…There are some researchers such as Stevenson and Starkweather [12] who conducted research in the field of soft skills but they were only working with a limited number of soft skills.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Soft Skills for Software Project Team Members

Mtsweni¹,

Hörne²,

Poll³

2016

IJCTE

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Abstract-Software development usually occurs in the context of software project management (SPM). An often cited challenge in the area of software project management is the high failure rate of software development projects (SPDs). One of the factors contributing to the failure of SDPs is the lack of soft issues, also known as soft skills or human aspects. The main purpose of this research was to identify and categorise the soft skills that facilitate the delivery of successful SDPs. To this end a survey was conducted in the form of a questionnaire as the research instrument. The results of the survey underwent a quantitative analysis and it was found that a variety of soft skills are important in facilitating the delivery of successful SDPs. Although a wide range of soft skills were identified, not all soft skills can be considered to be of crucial or equal importance. Index Terms-Soft skills, software development projects, software project failure.

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Section: A Skills For Software Project Stakeholdersmentioning

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Section: A Skills For Software Project Stakeholdersmentioning

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Section: B Causes Of Software Project Failurementioning

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“…There are some researchers such as Stevenson and Starkweather [12] who conducted research in the field of soft skills but they were only working with a limited number of soft skills.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Soft Skills for Software Project Team Members

Mtsweni¹,

Hörne²,

Poll³

2016

IJCTE

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“…They also came to the conclusion that, for example, allocating participants in a research environment to a leadership position, this increased their perceptions of competence, thus the probability of generating some helping behaviour. Stevenson and Starkweather (2009) suggest that a number of factors such as collapsing budgets, shortening of work deadlines and higher risks of failing to deliver work packages, have driven academics and practitioners to look for sources of work success. Some scholars suggest that tools and techniques are paramount to being successful at work.…”

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The ABC Manager-How to Manage People More Effectively in Today’s Challenging and Demanding Work Environments

Fisher¹,

González²

2013

EMR

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Managing people well is paramount to achieving goals and objectives at work. This paper investigates and provides a deeper understanding of what positive effects knowledge and application of the concepts of attitude and behaviour can have on managers and therefore the people they manage. The results show that people skills are positively affected by the attitudes and behaviours managers develop and apply. The outcome of a literature review suggests that social psychology plays an important role in establishing how attitudes and behaviours are formed at work and the effects these have on how people think, feel and ultimately act. Outputs from a focus group meeting with practising social psychologists suggest an effective attitude, behaviour and competence skills set that, when applied appropriately, could make the difference between average and superior performance. It is suggested that people skills on their own are no longer adequate to improve the performance levels of people. The outcome of this research is applicable and relevant to managers in any working environment such as Construction, IT, Finance or Consultancy. The proposed skills set of what makes an effective attitude, behaviour and competence (ABC) manager can be universally applied although some modifications may be necessary to meet the needs of cultural diversities.

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PM critical competency index: IT execs prefer soft skills

Cited by 179 publications

References 15 publications

Soft Skills for Software Project Team Members

Soft Skills for Software Project Team Members

The ABC Manager-How to Manage People More Effectively in Today’s Challenging and Demanding Work Environments

Developing Integration Competencies in People

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