How to become an IT manager?

Question

Career in IT

Good afternoon dear Forum users! The question is as follows: What knowledge will be useful to an IT student who, after graduating from a university, "dreams" of working as a manager directly of an IT department or company, rather than a programmer or developer? Is it possible to become an IT manager without writing a single "line of code"?

Answer 1

Everything is quite "simple". You take the idea of ​​the project, isolate the goals and objectives and make sure that it is implemented with the necessary functionality with limited resources in a limited period of time.
You will need:

• Knowledge of technology . Necessary for estimating the time and effort of the project, but it is not necessary (and even harmful) to code yourself. A project manager who is coding himself is obviously doing something wrong.
  
• Ability to select and organize a team . It is also a vital skill. It's harder than it looks.
  
• Ability to communicate with superiors, sponsors, customers . That is, you must be able to sell your work to people who do not understand well what you are doing there in your IT department.
  

Answer 2

yes, it is enough to be a nephew or a prettier girl

Answer 3

So you will become just another, sorry, "shit manager", whose worthlessness has no boundaries.
Is it possible to?
What do you need to know to manage programmers.
From Private to General?

Answer 4

In principle, it is possible to become an IT manager without writing a single line of code. But to stay in this position for a long time, if you really don’t understand programming, it won’t work. You will not be able to appreciate the complexity of tasks, you will not be able to convince colleagues of anything.
Do not forget that it is more difficult to manage intelligent people than stupid ones, and an IT specialty is, in general, work with your head. And if you don't rummage around in the field, you will most likely fail any project that drags on for more than a couple of months.

Answer 5

If we go into management without developing, then I advise you to choose the field of marketing / advertising / PR, it will be adequate, and no one will suffer). But the skill of assessing tasks still needs to be pumped, close to a technical specialist.
How to get into a management position? You must already have experience in management (IT), show completed projects as a manager. If no one is going to provide you with such a position for practice, you will have to invest in experience (options: projects with freelancers, a mini-studio, etc.). But for specialized companies, this experience is still not enough. In general, it is difficult, the way through development is easier.

Answer 6

Yes, I beg you, well, of course, you can be a project manager without writing a single line of code.
The project manager is not a programmer, but first of all, he is the one who can understand the task, understand the client, understand the client's clients, describe the TOR (without quarreling with the client), lead the project along with the developers (again without quarreling with the client) and hand over the project (finally without hating the client and management).
A project manager is, first of all, a person, an adult with a head and brains. Thinking, with a rod inside.
This is, first of all, relationships with people, colleagues, and only then technical specialty.
Of course, you will need general knowledge, but all this is such crap compared to what tasks you will have to solve with people.
In my opinion, only people with balls of steel survive in managers.
This is me, as a person with 4 years of experience in a large web studio, I'm telling you.

Answer 7

I see, on the toaster and on Habré, the term IT has already de facto become a synonym for "programming"
. the word "code", I ask you - put a tag related to programming so that I don’t immediately start reading ..
people, better tell me how to become a RP in normal IT projects - implementation of IT infrastructure: servers, storage, virtualization, backup , clouds, VDI
or just encoders?

Answer 8

Very much agree with the answers given before me. On my own behalf, I’ll add that not a single general has passed the role of an ordinary (even if within the walls of training, after which he was given the rank of lieutenant). Running, marching and performing other routine, mechanical and even routine actions is not only necessary but also useful in order to understand the train of thought of those you control.
The role of a manager comes with duties and responsibilities. Powers? - Only in the field of people management: hiring, firing, motivation.

Answer 9

First of all, you need work experience.
Since, in my opinion, managing an IT department, without knowledge in the area you are going to manage, is a utopia.
As an example. The management of the company has set a task for you, but how will you solve it if you have only theoretical knowledge, and zero practical experience. There are enough nuances in any area.

Answer 10

To do this, you need to convince your future colleagues at an interview that you will make an excellent project manager, everything is simple)

Answer 11

I have deja vu.
You have already asked a similar question .

Answer 12

In fact, the manager is the one who takes responsibility, then he doesn’t get much more rights, so if you are ready to take a hit and take responsibility for everything, then you are a born manager.