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Any Which Way
Janis Rizzuto (August 1, 2002)

Can projects be managed by skill alone, without industry-specific knowledge? In other words, can you do condos and code?

You have peers in industries ranging from construction and healthcare to entertainment and technology. Everyone has roughly the same title-project manager. But are you interchangeable? Can you oversee a bridge construction this year and a computer program the next? Would you want to? Moreover, could you find an employer willing to let you try?

Since project management is an evolving profession, there's an ongoing debate about what it means to be a project manager. Some say project management skills are easily transported from job to job while others are convinced that project management skills are only useful when blended with industry-specific knowledge.

Opinions are often tied to project managers' own career choices.

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