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 January 28, 2021

Job of Non Technical Project Manager – Precarious at Best?

by admin / Saturday, 01 June 2019 / Published in Uncategorised

In the last few years, the IT industry has seen quite a few major, publicized downsizing exercises as well as possibly numerous minor ones in the second tier companies that nobody talks about. It is claimed that only those performance performance fell far from the required mark got axed and that every job profile was represented equally in the pink slip bandwagon. But some of us may have noticed while crossing our fingers that now there are quite a few of the non technical project managers who have been ploting their Gantt charts and excel tables and demanding from us the reasons for the creeps (the scope or cost kind, not the people kind who really makes the PM hard-earn his salary). More often than not, they were aged somewhere above forty, had been doing this role for this company loyally for quite a time now, and hobnobbed with the top management at all possible occasions. So what happened?

When push comes to shove, the IT industry discriminate against the professionals who do not contribute a tangible, benchmark-able value to the project itself but "only" manage the project team? Is people management such an unskilled job that can be done just as well on the side by a Technical lead or a Business Analyst?

Perception at the bottom

There is the prevalent mindset that a professional needs to respect and be answerable to only another professional more experienced and knowledgeable in the same domain. Any other kind of supervision or management is considered impartial and the professional is justified in feeling put upon. What would (s) he know about the challenges in this project? It is easy enough to talk.

Perception at the top

Cutting down the middle project management should not cause as much discomfort as with any other role. After all, just get the all the team leads to report directly to the top manager from time to time while sharing the day to day tasks between themselves. The tech lead can manage the team and the business analyst can make the reports. A few less reports would only mean tomorrow meetings. Anyways a bunch of high falutin numbers does not run a project. So who's complaining?

And it does not help that in happier days, these middle managers get the highest pay on account of the years put into the industry so far. The thriving certification training business is proof of this. There are many different certifications mushrooming up as holding on to such a job becomes more and more difficult.

Wisecracks abound about how the main task in the higher echelons of the corporate is to prepare to add value. Management methodologies with the chief selling point apparently being that there is a "horizontal" team structure (that vanquishing that arch enemy, the manager) have gained much popularity. The current situation envisions an Utopian world where every team member self-starts, self-motivates, self monitors and pushes itself with the best interest of the client and the employer at heart, effectively managing time, cost and quality.

It is unrealistic. All that will happen is that the tech leads and analysts "promoted" into part time project managers will become exhausted and quit to build own start-ups, that being the latest epidemic in the industry.


Source by Sreeranjini Venugopal

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