Interpersonal Skills: Project Management
The article Project Management, written by three authors Suzanne DeJanasz, Karen Dowd, and Beth Schneider, describes the techniques and concepts that project managers can effectively utilize to improve the performance of their team projects. In addition, another authors’ aim is to tell the readers about the steps project managers should make in order to perform their projects successfully; the various strategies project managers should take into account; and provide further generalized advice on the topic.
The authors start with explaining the importance of efficient project management in today’s competitive environment, and then proceed to the “eight steps to managing projects.” These eight steps are as follows: 
1.	define project objectives and slope;
2.	determine project participants and stakeholders;
3.	develop a time-line or work plan;
4.	establish checkpoints and control mechanisms;
5.	identify and obtain necessary resources;
6.	determine how project results will be measured;
7.	set up an ongoing communication system; and 
8.	debrief and evaluate the process and result at project end.
Writers elucidate on each of the steps, providing charts and graphs that support the texts. In short, however, this part of the article tells about the importance of planning - “plan the work, work the plan.” The eight steps are aimed directly at outlining and planning projects, in order to avoid common problems during project implementation. They state that, if a project manager utilizes the eight steps approach and plans the project according to it and completes the tasks one by one just like the offer, project managers can avoid much common problems and dramatically increase their efficiency and efficiency of other team members. And as a result, productivity would increase as well. 
Following the planning and implementation part goes the part that offers useful tools for project implementation. It lists some of the important communication and interpersonal skills, as well as team presentation guidelines. This part they mainly base on the theory of Henry Gantt, a mechanical engineer and management consultant, who developed the so-called Gantt chart. Writers list the crucial activities that must take place within the group in order to obtain enough information to build up the Gantt chart. Furthermore, the authors suggested procedures to make other charts, namely PERT (program evaluation and review technique) and CPM (critical path method). Both of these charts are widely used in project management to screen and control the implementation process. 
Finally, at the end of the article, the reader is offered to complete several tests to find out his or her project management skills. 
Keywords of the article: project management, project time line, work plan, back scheduling, critical path method (CPM), Gantt chart, program evaluation and review technique (PERT).  
Bibliography
1.	Project management. (2001). Interpersonal skills in organizations. McGraw-Hill.