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Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT?
An anonymous reader writes to wonder if the glory has gone out of IT. One blogger remembered his first impression upon entering a profession in IT that made it seem like the place to be, with a new shiny around every corner. What experiences have others had? Has a more pervasive technical culture forced our IT gurus into obsolescence?
A good IT project manager is worth his or her weight in gold.
Because they are about as a rare.
I wonder if that is really true. Gold is going for roughly $990 per troy ounce, which is $1079.10 per ounce. The median weight of a 35 year old white man is about 175 pounds or 2800 ounces. So a IT project manager needs to be worth $3,021,479 to be worth his weight in gold. For a large project, it is not unreasonable to see where the difference between a good and bad manager can exceed that amount. If a company can retain the good manager for, say, 10 years then a manager needs to be saving you $302,147 to be worth his weight in gold. That is not at all unreasonable, so an IT project manager can really be worth his weight in gold if the projects are large enough.
The lesson here is to hire good, fat project managers so that you get your money's worth.