Bloggers Sound Off: Project Management Career Paths - Voices on Project Management

Via Project Management Institute:

Is there a defined career path at your organization? If not, what do you think are the barriers to developing one? If there is one, how is it affecting business success?

Bloggers Sound Off: Project Management Career Paths - Voices on Project Management

Points:

  • “…the greatest barriers are cultural and political ones within organizations.”
  • “…a project manager's role and career are better defined in projectized organizations, but not in functional ones such as many found in pharmaceuticals, biotech and manufacturing.”
  • “One of the barriers, at least in the last two years at a company I worked for, was the constant reorganizations that removed and consolidated functions.”