Digital Skills for Project Managers: A Systematic Literature Review

Nowadays, project managers are facing various challenges related to volatile and dynamic environment. They should be able to manage successfully changing requirements, budget constraints and multicultural teams across several countries. Due to Covid19 pandemic context, digital skills have become even more important in order to manage remote teams and to handle increasingly complex projects. In this paper, we've conducted a systematic literature review so as to explore the main digital skills which enhance project managers’ efficiency. By analyzing the main extracted concepts from the papers resulting from our systematic literature review, we've concluded that adopting digital skills is as important as technical classic project management skills and soft skills. Also, we've performed a quantitative assessment of the 15 selected articles by using bibliometric tools. Indeed, our clustering analysis on the selected papers confirms the rise of digitals skills importance since the Covid19 pandemic. In light of the above, we believe that adopting and mastering digital skills is a requirement for current project managers in order to succeed in a changing and volatile environment. Digital skills will undoubtedly play a central role for project managers to stand out and thrive in this new normal.