Acquiring the core skills of a PM?

Marianna
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Some skills to include when creating a new team: Flexibility: consider external constrains such as holidays, team member's expectations and estimate if a member leaves the project how easily you can find another team member. Organizational skills: ○ Use a planning and scheduling software -> Input important dates in the calendar ○ Communication tools -> Google Suite to keep all documents in drive, slack/ discord for team communication ○ Quality Assurance tools: productivity trackers, reports -> Send weekly email with track on (current achievements & upcoming priority) Enabling decision making: set goals on specific deliverables Communication: When escalation is needed know when to escalate a problem and suggest possible solutions Influencing without authority: ○ Communicate: check & provide feedback ○ Negotiate: who needs to conduct which tasks based on prio ○ Conflict Mediations: conduct meetings with members

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Yuki
In general engineers can be in the weeds and tend to lose scope of the overall goals of a project, and PMs help make sure engineers complete deliverables on time to meet schedule! Had to PM myself and my partner to get us to launch Smartrazor this week, feedback is greatly appreciated by anyone who has the change to check it out! (https://www.producthunt.com/post...)