Where an ICT project manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT project manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
ICT project managers schedule, control and direct the resources, people, funding and facilities to achieve the objectives of ICT projects. They establish budgets and timelines, perform risk analysis and quality management, and complete project closure reports.
Also known as IT projects manager, web project manager, scrum master, IT project manager, blockchain manager.
Managers 71 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: telecommunications manager, 51%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- project support officer 49% covered · difficulty 55.2
- ICT operations manager 46% covered · difficulty 58.3
- ICT documentation manager 45% covered · difficulty 56.5
- project manager 45% covered · difficulty 65.4
- ICT product manager 44% covered · difficulty 62.7
- software manager 34% covered · difficulty 71.9
- ICT change and configuration manager 34% covered · difficulty 69.4
- ICT auditor manager 29% covered · difficulty 73.8
- ICT business analyst 29% covered · difficulty 70.8
- ICT quality assurance manager 27% covered · difficulty 72.8
- ICT vendor relationship manager 27% covered · difficulty 72.4
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An ICT project manager needs 26 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- define roadmap for blockchain in applications communication, collaboration and creativity
- develop blockchain technology working with computers
- blockchain mining principles information and communication technologies (icts)
- manage project changes management skills
- manage project information information skills
- manage ICT project management skills
- create project specifications management skills
- identify legal requirements information skills
- internal risk management policy business, administration and law
- ICT project management business, administration and law
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT project manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- project manager 51% covered · difficulty 60.8
- operations manager 39% covered · difficulty 69.9
- ICT product manager 33% covered · difficulty 74.3
- project support officer 29% covered · difficulty 77.7
- ICT operations manager 27% covered · difficulty 79.1
- software manager 26% covered · difficulty 79.5
- ICT documentation manager 22% covered · difficulty 82.5
- telecommunications manager 18% covered · difficulty 85.6
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ICT project manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an ICT project manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.