Project management skills and competencies needed to be possessed by software project managers is an interesting topic. The project management skills can be divided into two categories – core project management skills and interpersonal skills (or soft skills). The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) published by PMI (Project Management Institute) details out the subject areas of core project management skills needed for project managers. When this is so, why this article? Well, the PMBoK does not go into the specifics of software project management and software project managers need skills beyond what is detailed out in PMBoK and this article is about this set of additional skills needed for software project managers