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- Title
Beyond The Iron Triangle: Year One.
- Authors
Caccamese, Andrea; Bragantini, Damiano
- Abstract
Soft skills for the Project Manager have been traditionally identified as a set of cross-cutting skills that should complement the core job of establishing and maintaining reasonable tradeoffs among the elements of the traditional project management iron triangle. Soft skills have been put under the spot in the paper "Beyond the iron triangle: year zero", which, rather, identified in project management the presence of "soft factors" and associated "constrained soft spaces", among them the motivational space, the social ruling space and the analytic/holistic space. In that paper it was highlighted that the project manager needs to extend its integrative role also to "soft factors", so that the traditional "iron triangle" is modified into a "hard-soft pyramid", where "soft factors" are integrated into a constrained environment between themselves and with the traditional "hard factors", like scope, time, cost and quality. Project management can rely upon handy tools for dealing with "hard factors": scope, time, cost and quality can be quantitatively defined and measured. But, what about "soft factors"? An integrative effort into "constrained soft spaces" needs similar tools to manipulate "soft factors". This paper is the result of a research effort aiming to identify viable taxonomies for "soft factors" in project management, along with proxies representing their qualitative/quantitative values, either when demanded by the single individual in the project team, or when provided by the project. The paper identifies "soft spaces" and the "soft factors" that expand into "constrained soft spaces". It provides a description of taxonomies for "soft factors", identifies proxies and metrics, and defines a simple process that might be put in place in any project context where the integrative project management effort is extended from "hard factors" to "soft factors".
- Subjects
SOFT skills; PROJECT managers; PROJECT management; PERSONNEL management; LEADERSHIP
- Publication
PM World Journal, 2013, Vol 2, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
2330-4480
- Publication type
Article