Managing people who are doing a project together, meeting deadlines, motivating people, recruiting people, assigning tasks, tracking budgets, and reporting out.
Learning/improvement resources: 

Scrum (Agile Alliance) and Scrum (scrum.org)

The Complete Kanban Guide

Demonstrated by: 

A Skilled project manager should be able to do the following:

  • Use a project/task tracking system like Jira
  • Use a group chat system like Slack or Teams
  • Use spreadsheets like Excel and Google Sheets
  • Be familiar with agile project methodologies like Scrum and Kanban and very proficient in at least one
  • Set up and run regular team and client meetings
  • Be a good meeting facilitator
  • Create and track project schedules
  • Create and track project budgets
  • Assign tasks to team members
  • Do simple QA (software testing)
  • Be familiar with the skills required by each team member's role
  • Identify missing skills if needed
  • Identify and address bottlenecks and impediments
  • Document the work of the team

An Expert project manager should additionally be able to do the following:

  • Identify and track scope creep
  • Identify and document missing functionality and tasks that weren't part of the original project plan
  • Build team cohesion
  • Identify growth opportunities for team members
  • Recruit new team members from the organization when needed

Roles and Tasks that require this skill

Contributed module, theme, or distribution maintainer (Contributor role)
Help manage the software development, design, and issues for a contributed module, theme, or distribution
Duration: ongoing
Drupal core initiative coordinator (Contributor role)
Lead development for a Drupal core initiative
Duration: ongoing

Roles and Tasks that may use this skill

Drupal Core Leadership Team (Contributor role)
Perform final review and governance on community-suggested improvements to Drupal core
Duration: ongoing
DrupalCon Volunteer Coordinator (Contributor role)
Oversees everyone who has volunteered to help at DrupalCon and assigns them to available tasks
Duration: several weeks
Recruit new Mentoring Coordinator (Contributor task)
Recruit further mentoring coordinators to help lead the mentors
Duration: several weeks