Show 18: Soft Skills

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Show notes: Our main focus today is on Soft Skills. What they are, how they will help you become a better PM and how to improve your own set of soft skills. Two resources I mention for soft skills are Monster.com's soft skill "Quiz" and a whitepaper titled Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management. A special hello and congratulations goes to my friend Thomas Schmidt in Germany who passed his PMP exam last week.

Helpful Resources

- Top 10 characteristics of Successful Project Managers (PDF document)
- White paper on creating a test strategy
- The CompTIA Project+ Glossary of Project Management Terms
- About.com's Project Management 101

Project Management in the News

- UC Irvine Extension's Advanced Project Management Simulation Course
- Business consultant Wirick pens book on project management
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- CIO'S expect to hire Project Managers in 2006
- Global PM Forum Reports now available