Intellectual Capability vs Project Management

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Hi Forum

I have an interesting question for all of you. I was recently up for promotion at work, but was unsuccessful for the promotion. I enquired about it with my boss and the HR department. The HR department gave me a standard reply which did not really assisted me much.

My boss told me that the reason I didn't get the promotion is because he does not see the project management ability out of me, but he does see me as an intelligent person. My question to him was do you prefer an intelligent person to run your projects or a person with good project management skills to run your projects. His immediate reply was the latter, which I strongly disagree.

I feel that project management is sometime one can work on, whereas intellectual capability cannot be changed much. I have also concluded that there might be politics involved here with the answer.

What is your view on the above matter?

Thanks all. Have a good new year!
 
You're wrong. A smart person does not a good manager make.
I'd rather keep my most technically competent (typically smart people) in positions where they add value in technical manners rather than a position where soft skills are more important.
 
Your boss may have bigger plans for you than just PM.
 
If they needed a PM, it made sense to appoint someone with PM experience.

You can be as intelligent as anything, but have no organisational skills...
 
Experience over intellect. It would cost them more to train you as well.
 
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Messugga said:
You're wrong. A smart person does not a good manager make.
I'd rather keep my most technically competent (typically smart people) in positions where they add value in technical manners rather than a position where soft skills are more important.
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Yes, and give them meager increases of 5-7% each year and keep them at the same position, year in, year out, and then wonder why they eventually leave and say that they went nowhere in the company
 
Koosi said:
Yes, and give them meager increases of 5-7% each year and keep them at the same position, year in, year out, and then wonder why they eventually leave and say that they went nowhere in the company
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Common practice, unfortunately. IT is just a cost centre, why should they get increases? Not like they add any value to the business.
 
Messugga said:
Common practice, unfortunately. IT is just a cost centre, why should they get increases? Not like they add any value to the business.
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Same applies for engineers and technicians.
The accountants are the real geniuses after all. Bean counting has a higher value than actually creating products that sell.
 
Why the heck would you want to be a PM? Those guys do pretty much nothing other than attending meetings and following up on timelines...
 
If you are hard to replace it also makes promotions difficult.
But there are an infinite ammount of possible reasons sometimes as stupid as your boss not liking you.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Why the heck would you want to be a PM? Those guys do pretty much nothing other than attending meetings and following up on timelines...
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Lol I commented out my sentiments regarding how fscking boring a PM role is before a flame war ensue.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Why the heck would you want to be a PM? Those guys do pretty much nothing other than attending meetings and following up on timelines...
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They do much more than that. Let's face it the project staff don't give a **** about what it costs to bring the project to production it is for the PM to remind them. PMs are not without fault with their habit of popping the champagne before the darn thing is even doing anything productive as long as they reach some milestone or other random project completion definition with no ties to productive work.
 
R13... said:
They do much more than that. Let's face it the project staff don't give a **** about what it costs to bring the project to production it is for the PM to remind them. PMs are not without fault with their habit of popping the champagne before the darn thing is even doing anything productive as long as they reach some milestone or other random project completion definition with no ties to productive work.
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Sometimes they even throw parties on go-live date, and then get upset when the project team don't want to attend because they want to babysit the implementation process and be available should something go wrong
 
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