Discussing Project Management

A project is a piece of planned work for participants to do on time.

When doing a project, you need to finish the project having achieved what you initially intended to do. Resources, such as time, money and people, are also important for a project manager when working on a project. If it's team work, coordination is very important.

A process is a regular thing which happens again and again. It's different from a project. A project is a temporary piece of work but a process is a permanent piece of work.

If you work in project management, it is essential for you to be self-disciplined, but in reality, I don't like it. It's demanding of your time, money and intellectual; and it's also hard for you to do.

There are some skills that you need to be a good project manager:

• time management skills (also to manage your time)
• organizational skills (able to organize your work and other people)
• leadership skills (able to motivate the people on your team)
• interpersonal skills (able to work with other people and get on well with them)
• communication skills (able to talk to people and work with them)
• technical skills (also to use the tools of your profession, e.g. IT skills)