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Project success or failure is affected by many context factors such as project manager’s competency. Regarding to the importance of project manager’s competency in project success, this research aims to analyze the importance of project manager’s competencies based on the project type and complexity. According to the mix method of the research, after reviewing the project management literature and identifying mentioned competencies for the project manager, eight interviews with senior managers in two companies (construction and IT) were done to verify/correct identified competencies. Then, a questionnaire was made in quantitative part of the research and sent to 35 senior, executive and project managers in the two selected IT and construction companies to rank the importance of identified competencies and specify complexity or simplicity of construction and IT projects in mentioned companies. The results were analyzed by Anova test. The findings of ranking project manager’s competencies show that leadership, project stakeholder management and project integration management in the construction project (simple type), result orientation, commitment and project integration management in construction projects (complex type), project cost management, negotiation ability and project integration management in IT projects (simple type) and project integration management, project scope management and project cost management in IT projects (complex type), are the most important competencies.