Project managers: Can we make them or just make them better?

Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 167-173

  Brewer, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

leadership; project management; soft skills

Indexed keywords

LEADERSHIP; LEADERSHIP SKILLS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES; PROJECT MANAGERS; SOFT SKILLS;

CURRICULA; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MANAGERS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84885644572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1095714.1095754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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