Trio?

[Mustang]

As a project manager, I am focusing on my core project management skills which are my strengths. I am increasingly finding though that clients are looking for "technical project managers" and happy to take someone with less PM experience as long as they have more technical experience. Are others finding this?

Are there any BA's and technical architects out there that seem to find they are increasingly being asked to have PM skills?

[Old Greg]

As a project manager, I am focusing on my core project management skilss which are my strengths. I am increasingly finding though that clients are looking for "technical project managers" and happy to take someone with less PM experience as long as they have more technical experience. Are others finding this?

Are there any BA's and technical architects out there that seem to find they are increasingly being asked to have PM skills?

I work in the healthcare IT sector and in most cases, clients look for project managers with expertise in the sector, which usually means BA or clinical skills. I think part of the reason is that large suppliers want to give the impression that they understand their client's business. The drawback is that you sometimes get a nurse/doctor who's done some IT and then done a PRINCE2 course and goes straight into project management without the experience or expertise.

The exceptions to this tend to be planning roles and pure technical infrastructure PM roles (and they may want a technical background for that for all I know).