Every business owner and department head wants to find people who can deliver the right IT products for the organisation and genuinely support sustainable profitability.
Real insight comes from practice. Reading extensively alone does not enable someone to build the right products. Without practical experience, everything remains theoretical.
To develop into this kind of professional, one should begin as a Programmer, accumulate hands-on experience, and then progress to roles such as Analyst Programmer and System Analyst. Even after advancing to an IT Manager position, one should not become completely detached from technical practice.
Why? Only IT managers with extensive hands-on technical experience—and who continue to devote part of their time to reviewing the work directly—can provide truly effective management by:
- Directly reviewing solution designs, dependencies, interfaces, testing evidence and development quality to ensure that products genuinely meet business requirements and contribute to sustainable profitability.
- Using practical technical experience to challenge vendor quotations, identify poor-quality vendors early, and effectively control costs, effort, scope and hidden risks.
- Assessing delivery not merely by completion percentage, but by confirming correctness, stability and maintainability.
- Analysing root causes, evaluating possible solutions and driving genuine resolution when problems arise.
Without this capability, managers can only:
- Rely on vendors’ descriptions of proposed solutions, timelines and quality.
- Depend mainly on progress updates, meetings and status reports as their sources of information.
- Focus acceptance on whether work has been “completed”, rather than whether it is correct, stable and maintainable.
- Struggle to determine root causes directly when problems occur, leaving them to continue coordinating, asking questions and relaying information between different parties.
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