Information Technology Project Managers

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What they do:
Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.
On the job, you would:
  • Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
  • Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.
  • Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics
  • product and service development

Communications

  • telecommunications

Skills

Basic Skills

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

People and Technology Systems

  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one

Resource Management

  • managing your time and the time of other people
  • selecting and managing the best workers for a job

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen

Math

  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Leadership
  • Integrity
  • Initiative
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Dependability

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Project management software

  • Atlassian JIRA Hot Technology In Demand
  • Microsoft Teams Hot Technology

Development environment software

  • Microsoft Team Foundation Server Hot Technology
  • Oracle Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition J2EE Hot Technology

Web platform development software

  • React Hot Technology
  • Spring Framework Hot Technology

Education

bachelor's degree or
associate's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Bright
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.

Salary:

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