Is project management a real job?

You can hear regularly companies saying that project manager is not a real job. If you want to work, you need to know the techniques, the business, or both. I guess this is not very true. A good project manager can find around him the right resources, he is not obliged himself to know everything and to become an expert.

Nobody worries when the CEO of an telecom company moves to the same job in a car production company. A developper can easily change company, so can a commercial.

Why is this not true for project managers? Is the project manager the only job where expertise is requested in another subject?

I work in a bank, I am not a banker, I am a manager!

The closure of a project is the opportunity to release resources from the project, write a closure report and pull lessons learned.
It is also the opportunity to thank the resources having worked for your project.
Thanking resources after a project will probably make you sympathetic of course but it will before everything increase your visibility and ensure a commitment of the resources during your next project.

• Thank your direct team.
• Thank external resources having participated.
• Plan clearly a celebration party as soon as you plan the project.

Thank for the past. Think of the future.