Iâm pleased that the latest version of the PMBOK (the Project Management Body of Knowledgeâthe PMIâs âbibleâ) has added a section on âsoft skillsâ to its 42 process areas. Itâs only about 5 pages out of ~450, but itâs a start, and an acknowledgement that these skills are also important.
A concept is more or less the final form of an idea, which has been gone through the process of fine-tuning and pruning of its raw edges. Generally, when it is a concept, one can mentally see the startpoint, endpoint, and the development path of transition points in between from the standpoint of execution.
Both the concepts and the propositions of a conceptual model are abstract and very general and are often expressed in a vocabulary that is distinctive for each model; however, the concepts and propositions of a conceptual model are less abstract than those of a metaparadigm, from which a conceptual model is derived.