Best IT people make the worst project manager: Do you agree?

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In your opinion, do you prefer staying in a more technical career path or moving into project management?

Do you agree about Jim Johnson’s article, “Turning CHAOS into SUCCESS” at http://www.softwaremag.com/L.cfm?Doc=archive/1999dec/Success.html

stating that the best information technology people make the worst project managers?[/COLOR]