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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Yeah, that's another rant on its own. IT management often pays so much more that in the Netherlands, we've been seeing classes and classes full of people who study "Management & IT" or "Corporate I(C)T." The result is that we have a bazillion people who know (or think to know) how to manage that X will get done, but nobody who can actually *DO* X.
Last time I've looked, Management & IT had become a useless education. If a company needs to get shit done (= an actual product must be created), being able to hire 800 managers is of no use if you can't find anyone with the knowledge to actually create the product.
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Yup, as an IT Project Manager, my mantra is "I'm NOT an engineer" (software or hardware or infrastructure or marketing or budgeting or any other aspect of the industry), and I must rely heavily on those who are. In PM parlance those folks are "resources", and without resources I'm hamstrung.
IT management is about knowing just enough about the resources to patch them together into a useful and profitable product.
So in the final analysis you need one PM and a host of Subject Matter Experts (SME), and the skills to be a PM can be approached from any of the various subjects, and while it can be taught in institutions that path will not normally provide the requisite experience.