Comments on: Standard Areas of Discipline Within IT https://smbitjournal.com/2017/01/standard-areas-discipline-within/ The Information Technology Resource for Small Business Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:00:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Scott Alan Miller https://smbitjournal.com/2017/01/standard-areas-discipline-within/comment-page-1/#comment-26476 Tue, 07 Mar 2017 09:57:26 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=1037#comment-26476 In the original article location I had added an addendum that I did not add here that specifically talked about Project Management. I will add that back in here as perhaps it is valuable since the first comment here is a question about the part that I had removed.

The general answer, though, about those things is that all of those are specifically non-IT disciplines. Project management, procurement, service delivery, management – none of those things are IT, but are all their own professions. All of those get used with IT, of course, as does finance, facilities, HR and other business aspects. But you don’t study or know IT to do any of them. To be a project manager, for example, you study project management. You could study project management focused on managing IT, but this would be rare and unnecessary. PM as a discipline is well established.

IT itself is a business area, not a technical one. But the disciplines are focused on the technical because the business aspect is universal.

]]> By: Tyrell https://smbitjournal.com/2017/01/standard-areas-discipline-within/comment-page-1/#comment-26396 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:35:02 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=1037#comment-26396 What about project management, service delivery/management, budgeting/commercials/licensing/procurement etc? do they have a place in the list above or is the focus mainly on the technical aspects of IT?

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