Are All Project Managers the Same to All Projects?

In this podcast Ricardo talks about the main characteristics of project managers and discuss if this characteristics should be the same to all kind of projects and if should exist some kind of technical specialization in the subject or not in order to execute the proper project planning and control.

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the five minutes podcast. And today I'm planning to talk a little bit about one topic of that. I receive it from Maria and the title is very interesting. Yeah. Are Oh, Project, Managers the same. And this is about talking a little bit about technical oriented project manager, or I'm more generic list and more broader project manager.

I like to start talking a little bit about my life, regardless of being a chemical engineer, I start my career in project management at the it sector, and now I'm almost not doing any technical and I T related projects right now. And all the competences that I developed during my it a career as a project manager, they help with me a lot to understand the speed, the pace, and all that, the very top a week environment that I can see in the technical sector.

Yeah. And with that, I could apply all this learning. In the area's like I'm working right now, like oil, energy, and power generation. And one thing that for me, and it's really, really important is that you don't need to understand technically everything about your project. It's for me, this is my personal opinion. It's for me much more important that to think in leadership skills, that the, think a lot about negotiation, a huge ability of communications understand the risks.

So it's very, very important that you think in a generic way and not only the technical aspects, I'm sure all the troubles that I have in my Projects 99% of them are not that clinically related. So I'm my, my personal opinion is that to be more generic will make you a much broader project manager. For example, I have clients in the financial sector, I have clients in the oil sector and I also have some clients in the it sector.

So yeah, if you close or your, a field of action to it, maybe you will lose a huge opportunity to apply all of your life learning about project managers in other areas. So a few for me, what makes it a really great, an outstanding bros up manager is that human ability and communications ability and the planning ability, the ability to, to address the risks and to make big everybody worked together, of course, and I'm sure that we'll technical the people to do the work a I'm sure about that we need, but I don't think that detect clinical behavior is the most recent part and behavior for the project manager.

And this is not, this is not right, in my opinion, we need to understand that. Of course, if you have the technical competence to gather with your project manager for behavior, this will make you a more than a great product management. But if you need to opt between being technical and being the more generic and more prepared it, and more of a project manager in the generic will give you a lot of advantage between you and only at a technical aspect.

This is really, really important. For example, if we read the PMBOK guide, the PMBOK guide is a generic document. It's a generic standard, and you can see we play it for a, the tourism on the street for the two to create the nail, you know, near the airport or a two to build a new home or to do, to make a merger and acquisition on them. A name a it's a, and if you were understand all the aspects involved in scope time, the cost quality to risk communications human resource, this will make you a great project manager and not understanding how the pipes connect themselves to build the oil platform.

This is not for me, a required competence for being the project manager. So if you open your mind, then your market will be EV any kind of company, any kind from hospitals to airports, to the construction company, to all your company to I T company does, will make you a much open and competent professional. And this is this a, what I was planning to talk today. So let's talk next week in the next five minutes, bam.

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