I would say that some PMs make the effort to understand what they are managing. They tend to be the better ones. Once something's explained to them once (e.g. implications of making a particular change) they understand.
Other PMs just think that every project is the same, no matter what the industry or tech, and there is thus no need to really understand what they are dealing with - it's all just about schedules, dependencies, budgets, scope etc. Those tend not to be the good ones. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PMI PMP Certification For a good PM. I will say that, in my experience, a PM with experience in the tech that they are doing PM for, is more effective than a PM who does NOT have that experience. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Gary Slinger [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PMI PMP Certification You have no idea what you're talking about. PM, QA and imp team are all at corp HQ. Let's say it's in Houston. Dev's are outsourced. Tata, whatever. Pick one. They're in Mumbai. You really think that team is going to work for a lead 'developer"? A dev is still a dev. I can see a limited exception for somewhere like Microsoft. Suggesting as a baseline that the PM work for the dev is moronic, even in the tiny little one dev one PM example you give. Scale it out - suppose the PM has 30 projects, and ten of them aren't IT? (Building move, HVAC replace, conference spool up, etc.). Suppose this isn't IT? One PM, and pickhowevermany carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, etc. The PM works for the 'business' (the GC or owner's rep, e.g. this case). PMI isn't the be all and end all, but it's scaleable generic project management. I'm neither a PM nor a Dev, by the way. They both work for me. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
