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The Return of the Project Manager
My fellow community members, I have a confession to make. For the last several years I have shied away from a project manager title for fear that I would be pigeonholed. We have all been there, limited in what people think we actually do based on a title. Now let’s look at this past year. The economy tanked, many of us lost a good portion of our savings and unemployment continues to hover around 10 percent.
So what is a project manager to do today as many companies have held off on hiring and starting many projects for that matter? The answer is use this time to hone our skills, discover new roles that really require a project manager to be successful and learn how to market (or “re-market”) our skills for a changing economy. Whether you are a seasoned project manager, a self proclaimed PM or finding yourself wanting to enter the profession, read on. Although I never claim to have all the answers, I hope this article will offer a different perspective as well as a bit of hope.
From my perspective, the era of the project manager is back. Gone are the days of the project manager being perceived as an unnecessary burden that just got “in the way” of getting real work done because of their utilization of the processes and procedures that govern the profession. Now more than ever, when a company decides to embark on a project, business leaders are …
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