My last post discussed the commodification of IT project managers:

"With the depressed economy and lagging growth, compounded by commodification of IT systems and services, companies are now often looking for project management specialists that they can “rent” to perform planning, execution, and control of project tasks... 

To make matters worse, barriers to decent-paying IT project management jobs have increased with many organization now requiring some form of certification. This has in turn created a glut of training certification providers that have become commodities in their own right... 

So the pressure is on and the corporate IT project manager is becoming more and more viewed as a a bureaucratic cost of managing change. The trend now is to reduce the cost of project management while maintaining basic services. This is impacting those coming into the market as well as those who have been here for a while."

This seems to be validated in many ways by a Gartner prediction that by the end of this decade, business groups will own and control 90% of the spending done by IT.

In the early 2000's IT spending accounted for around 20% of total technology spending, which Gartner Inc. Research Vice President Brian Prentice predicts, the percentage of technology spending by the business (outside of the control of IT) will reach 35 % by 2015.

Eventually, business will own up to the 90% by 2020 predicted by Gartner! 

If you’re role is of an IT project manager, will you be ready for such a major shift?

Full article here:

http://www.projectation.com/the-it-project-managers-dilema-when-business-owns-90-of-it/

-Don Kim
Projectation.com