Is Project Management an Accidental Profession?

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Is Project Management an
Accidental Profession?
Kristen Ducharme— February 23, 2013

In preparation for writing this blog, I did some

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the article, I determined that nearly every successful
Project Manager I have met throughout my career
possesses almost every attribute listed. Upon further
reflection and research, I even got to laughing because
personally I have always been this way. Not just in
work, but in my home life as well. The girls’ camping
trip meeting, where I showed up with a pen and paper
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I started wondering—how do Project Managers get (Several Examples)
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into project management? I reflected back on my own
career and really, it happened by accident. I started
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great thing about project management as a career is Well Together

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that there are a plethora of classes you can take to
hone your skills and give you essential tools for
managing a successful project, such as learning how to
mitigate project risk and how to easily identify scope
creep. Project Managers can also earn credits for
classes and achieve their much-respected certification
with the Project Management Institute (PMI).

If you read through the list of attributes and thought,

“hey, that’s me!” then maybe deep down you’re already
a project manager and you don’t even know it.

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