When is a Project Manager not a Project Manager

By Anthony Sherick

"It seems that these days everyone claims to be a project manager. Glancing through the jobs pages of newspapers, you’ll see a wide variety of companies crying out for the skills of experienced project managers. Account managers are being renamed project managers; In fact anyone who can be classed as managing a project is now called a PM. But are these ‘true’ project management roles? We take a look at some of the project management jobs that don’t require the skills of a true project manager."

By Anthony Sherick of Project Manager Jobs (www.projectmanagerjobs.co.uk) the dedicated website for jobs in project management.

 (See the rest of this article at http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/when-is-a-project-manager-not-a-project-manager.html )

Good article and very true. This also raises a series of questions, particularly as it relates to the “Subject Matter Expert PM” in this article.

• ·         What project tools do they go to and rely on to position their projects for success?
• ·         Which project management artifacts do they create? Do they know which ones to create; when to use them and why?
• ·         Where do they go to for guidance and administrative support?

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