Article: Project manager: Elusive term?

Doing more work with fewer people seems to be a growing trend, especially in an industry where workers have to manage multiple projects. In fact, the term itself-project manager-is springing up in many businesses. But what does it mean? Is it a specific job that requires training or something that nearly everyone does as part of their job?

If you manage one or more projects or people in your job, you could probably call yourself a project manager. At least that's the view of some engineers who manage projects every day. "We have people who help customers get orders or who manage development of a project or organize people and resources, and you could call any of those people project ...

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