Skills Required for a Software Project Manager
Is a project failure what you expect to have? The answer is obvious. For this reason, it is
necessary to consider what abilities managers need to have. According to [1], software project
management is a combination between the art and science of planning and leading a software
project. Implementing software products are mostly unpredictable, 66 percent of them are
considered a failure [2]. In order to cope with every problem encountered, the project manager’s
skills can be classified into soft skills and hard skills.
Firstly, let take a look at the soft skills needed for a project manager. Due to the fact that a
project manager must manage a team of people –to make a project successful, they should have
leadership skills. Most significantly, many projects are always cross-functional, as members in a
team have never worked together before. Project managers, who have a high potential of being a
