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What's in a Word?
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
The job market was great for project managers two years ago. There were jobs in every skill category. This year, it’s a virtual utopia, especially for PMs with hot IT skills, particularly in security and architecture.
That’s the word from a recent Forrester Research Survey of CIOs of small, medium and large companies.
The demand for PMs with strong security and architecture backgrounds is not surprising. However, Forrester also said that companies are particularly desperate for PMs with cross-functional and multi-tasking backgrounds who understand how the business side works. And if they’re heavy in cross-functional capabilities, they’ve got the world locked up. That means they’re able to deliver projects and meet business requirements on time and on budget.
Does this sound familiar? The same adjectives keep popping up in IT surveys and studies year after year. Each survey presents its findings as if they were new, revolutionary, groundbreaking and definitive.
In short, it’s old--make that stale--news. Maybe the sound-byte presentations are better than last year’s, but the conclusions are the same. Companies had trouble finding techies with a solid background in business five years ago, and now that we’re enjoying a strong economy and a corresponding marked demand for talent, it’s even …
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