A project manager is required to be a sort of “jack of all trades” in the form that they must excel in so many areas in order to effectively get the job done. A successful project manager must be knowledgeable in the technical aspects of the project in order to analyze and execute decisions. A project manager must have excellent interpersonal skills in order to convey information, motivate, and in large, communicate with their team/peers. This touches back to another discussion on this forum of how important interpersonal skills are in a project manager. Interpersonal skills touch on every aspect of a project manager because there is always communication with other people throughout a project. Therefore, I think that while there are so many things a project manager must excel at in order to be successful at the job, interpersonal skills come in at number one because there is no way a project can be successful with a project manager who can’t communicate.