ICT project manager to ICT documentation manager
An ICT project manager already meets 45% of what the ICT documentation manager role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.
56.5/ 100
1 How much of what an ICT documentation manager is expected to do is already part of an ICT project manager’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the ICT documentation manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An ICT documentation manager role treats 8 of its required skills as things an ICT project manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- ICT project management
- apply organisational techniques
- define technology strategy
- develop information standards
- identify legal requirements
- legal requirements of ICT products
What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 17 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An ICT documentation manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT project manager background worth leading with.
- already held develop information standards management skills
- already held crowdsourcing strategy business, administration and law
- already held document management social sciences, journalism and information
- already held insourcing strategy business, administration and law
- already held manage localisation communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held outsourcing strategy business, administration and law
All 17 carried skills, including the 8 the ICT documentation manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 20 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn manage content development projects required
- still to learn provide guidelines for content development required
- still to learn manage human resources required
- optional, not held develop media strategy optional
- optional, not held plan digital marketing optional
- optional, not held set quality assurance objectives optional
- still to learn manage content metadata required
- still to learn manage information sources required
- optional, not held identify market requirements for ICT documentation optional
- optional, not held identify ICT user needs optional
- optional, not held monitor technology trends optional
- optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
- still to learn industrial software required
- optional, not held ICT help platforms optional
- optional, not held usability engineering optional
- still to learn business processes required
- optional, not held supplier management optional
- still to learn content development processes required
- still to learn ensure compliance with legal requirements required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an ICT documentation manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 manage content development projects practise this
- 02 provide guidelines for content development practise this
- 03 business processes study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 17 skills that carry over
- already held ICT project management knowledge
- already held apply organisational techniques skill
- already held define technology strategy skill
- already held develop information standards skill
- already held identify legal requirements skill
- already held legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held perform resource planning skill
- already held apply change management skill
- already held crowdsourcing strategy knowledge
- already held document management knowledge
- already held insourcing strategy knowledge
- already held maintain relationship with suppliers skill
- already held manage localisation skill
- already held outsourcing strategy knowledge
- already held quality assurance methodologies knowledge
- already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
- still to learn disseminate internal communications required
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held identify market requirements for ICT documentation optional
- optional, not held ICT help platforms optional
- optional, not held identify ICT user needs optional
- optional, not held supplier management optional
- optional, not held usability engineering optional
- optional, not held develop media strategy optional
- optional, not held monitor technology trends optional
- optional, not held plan digital marketing optional
- optional, not held set quality assurance objectives optional
- optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
54 held skills the ICT documentation manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role Agile development knowledge
- not needed by the target role Agile project management knowledge
- not needed by the target role DevOps knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT process quality models knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT project management methodologies knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT system user requirements knowledge
- not needed by the target role Open source model knowledge
- not needed by the target role Outsourcing model knowledge
- not needed by the target role Process-based management knowledge
- not needed by the target role Prototyping development knowledge
- not needed by the target role Rapid application development knowledge
- not needed by the target role Spiral development knowledge
- not needed by the target role Waterfall development knowledge
- not needed by the target role analyse business plans skill
- not needed by the target role apply conflict management skill
- not needed by the target role blockchain mining principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role build business relationships skill
- not needed by the target role carry out project activities skill
- not needed by the target role coach employees skill
- not needed by the target role create project specifications skill
- not needed by the target role create solutions to problems skill
- not needed by the target role define roadmap for blockchain in applications skill
- not needed by the target role define technical requirements skill
- not needed by the target role develop blockchain technology skill
- not needed by the target role digital systems knowledge
- not needed by the target role draft project documentation skill
- not needed by the target role estimate duration of work skill
- not needed by the target role execute ICT audits skill
- not needed by the target role hybrid model knowledge
- not needed by the target role implement ICT risk management skill
- not needed by the target role incremental development knowledge
- not needed by the target role internal risk management policy knowledge
- not needed by the target role iterative development knowledge
- not needed by the target role lean project management knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain a central project repository skill
- not needed by the target role manage ICT project skill
- not needed by the target role manage project changes skill
- not needed by the target role manage project information skill
- not needed by the target role manage staff skill
- not needed by the target role object-oriented modelling knowledge
14 further entries not listed here
6 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn business processes required
- still to learn content development processes required
- still to learn industrial software required
- optional, not held ICT help platforms optional
- optional, not held supplier management optional
- optional, not held usability engineering optional
Other moves recorded from ICT project manager
- telecommunications manager 51% covered · moderate
- project support officer 49% covered · substantial
- ICT operations manager 46% covered · substantial
- project manager 45% covered · substantial
- ICT product manager 44% covered · substantial
- software manager 34% covered · substantial
- ICT change and configuration manager 34% covered · substantial
- ICT auditor manager 29% covered · substantial
Common questions about this move
Can an ICT project manager become an ICT documentation manager?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. An ICT project manager already covers 45% of what an ICT documentation manager is expected to do: 17 skills carry over, 8 of which the ICT documentation manager role treats as required.
What skills does an ICT project manager need to become an ICT documentation manager?
10 required skills are missing, plus 10 optional ones. They fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by management skills. The single most important is manage content development projects.
How hard is the move from ICT project manager to ICT documentation manager?
Its learning distance is 56.5 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.