Are project management skills valuable?
Takeaway: Do project managers spend more time honing processes than producing results? That’s one of the complaints that a TechRepublic member has of project managers. Which side of the question do you fall on? TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on a host of project management issues. I received an interesting e-mail recently from TechRepublic member Paul who obviously wasn’t enamored with the role of project manager. He made his point clear by the end of the first paragraph, in which he said that much of his advice and feedback for project managers was first based on the assumption that the project manager must, in fact, “have a clue.” Paul goes on to say that his two most recent project managers were both let go for failing to accomplish their project objectives, even though they were given much more time than originally scheduled. Paul’s general impression of project
