Project Managers have a bright future....

NOT!

One of the two great lies of corporatedom is that there will always be a need for Project Managers.

The other is that you need to be certified by PMI as a PMP.

It's true that projects should always have a Project Manager to lead the damn thing. Otherwise, management will put the Account Rep in charge and he'll put the developers in the PM slot while they develop.

And then wackiness ensues.

A 3-month estimate for $50K will turn into a 4-month for $65K (um, sorry, we misunderestimated the amount of work you told us you wanted). Then when the money runs out and nothing is delivered, the developers and Account Rep move onto other things and will work on that project in their spare time using other bench resources as they become available (those clients are bastards, don't they know we're working for free now).

And the customer waits....

And then the Titanic becomes a 10-person project over budget by $550K, going on a year in development (testing will cost them extra, heh! Eh, we'll let the customer test it when we give them the code). With none of the usual checks in place.

And the Director with the mid-life crisis hides the loss off the book from the corporate overlords in the Eastern time zone.

And the customer waits....

But.

Back to my original premise (I may come back to this particular disaster later), which is that Project Management as a profession has dropped off the map. And now the market is saturated with ... you guessed it ... Project Managers! And too few opportunities.

And PMI still wants their $119 annual renewal fee for ... who knows.

Anywayz.