…I am sure you will do well as project manager too.

Posted By Pankaj on December 7, 2007
Filed Under Project Management

This is what “Halo Effect”  is all about. I have seen this happening in my career and I assume it is kind of common in the IT industry.

Let’s say there is person who is extremely good in programming (technical stuff in general) and his boss knows it too. He has good regards towards him on his contributions in the project / company. One fine day, he promotes him as a Project Manager and says to him “You have done good in the technical area but now I want you to manage a project as I am sure you will do your best here too”. Unfortunately, this person doesn’t have the required leadership skills, soft skills, team management skills etc etc to become a successful project manager. Matters get worse, when that person t had no intentions to become a leader. He in fact was quite happy with what he was doing. The so called manager ( THE boss) , didn’t consider any of these aspects but using his subjective bias, he assumed that a good programmer will be a good project manager as well.

End result, company has lost his best programmer and gained a lousy manager. Who looses? I think everyone involved … what do you say?

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