An overview of breakdown of competences in managing major construction projects

Abstract

Project manager’s competences have become recognized as one of key project management actors in successful delivery of projects in today’s world. This paper gives a literature overview of existing competence models, with a special accent on competences breakdown, the main components and its relationship, obtained through systematic literature review. Moreover, authors give an application of theoretical knowledge on those competences that matter the most in construction industry, which is traditionally oriented towards technical elements of project management, but exposed to numerous people and context factors. This makes major construction projects great example of demonstrating project manager’s personality importance in successful project execution