IT DEPENDS. Project is always not Functional and Functional people are always not Managers. Functional knowledge is one aspect, apart from that the FM should also have the following skills and qualities to manage a project 1. Technical Knowledge to Solve the team member's queries 2. Job Delegation and Project Reporting System 3. Rather than doing he should be able to make people do the task or job meaning Teaching swimming than swimming himself 4. Cost Analysis 5. Deliverable Analysis 6. Change Management and Customer Expectation Management 7. Team Motivation 8. Others GENERALLY a functional person knows the project from his and customer's angle and it becomes the PM's task to make the TEAM understand about the project technically and functionally. FM might face some challenges and dependencies on these grounds. Posted 9 months ago    Report abuse

Abhijit Ghosh Consultant Sales Manager

As per my experience, I found that even a facility manager can be a good project manager as he is well aware of each functionality of business. Posted 10 months ago    Report abuse

Pradeep Kolanu Facility Management Consultant

you are right dear Posted 11 months ago    Report abuse

Dinesh Rattan Senior Territory Manager

No they can't make good project. They just know how to implement processes in Project. Posted 12 months ago    Report abuse

Himanshu Porwal Software Engineer

yes they can make good project managers. from akhil Posted 12 months ago    Report abuse

Akhilesh madhusudan shrinivas hari kulkarni executive accounts

Many believe that functional managers always make bad project managers (even if they're good managers). Although I agree that the roles have to be separate, and functional managers may be bad project managers, I believe that it is not an axiom. In my previous job, I remember an outstanding IT manager, who also acted as a project manager. I have to say that the secret of his success was his great delegation skills. In retrospect, I remember he used to delegate nearly everything and he used to always delegate to the right people. People working under him were always motivated, they loved him, and they were always doing their best. Posted 12 months ago    Report abuse

Ankita Jain HR

Project managers must establish an appropriate WBS level from which to manage. Creating a highly detailed WBS is an invitation to micromanage a project, thus alienating functional managers. Most project managers today do not possess the technical expertise to create such a detailed WBS without functional assistance. Posted 12 months ago    Report abuse

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