The role of the IT project manager is to lead the project team to accomplish project goals and to avoid chaos and failure. That said, how exactly does a project manager manage expectations, resolve conflict, overcome obstacles, facilitate meetings and motivate the project team? In this Focused Discussion, you will consider essential skills that a project manager needs to have.

To complete this Discussion:

Post three skills that you think are most important for an information technology project manager and analyse why you think these are most important skills and where you think in the life cycle of a project they would be used.