Should you have to take a qualification in project management before being allowed to work as project manager?
Agreeing to your point, the best way to ensure that these skills are in place is “not only” by education, but huge amount of experience as: 1. No one can teach you all the possible scenarios, even if you take a course that offers 3000 case studies in an year. 2. Human relationship and handling human-human crises can never be taught, except for in real-life situations. 3. Project management involves balancing act between men, money, materials, machines, timelines, excuses, etc…, which certainly cannot be covered by just education. Off-late, I read in a book that “You can buy the best books to teach yourself swimming, but it is up to you to seek a pool and dive to become an expert”. This applies completely to project management.
