Strongly discourage this move. I've made the transition from developer to PM over the last 7 years and it's enabled me to work on progressively larger projects

Strongly discourage this move. I've made the transition from developer to PM over the last 7 years and it's enabled me to work on progressively larger projects and to set direction. Being a PM is about making sure the right thing is built at the right time. Admittedly my technical skills have gone stale and to do any of the really interesting technical things would require 6-12 months of intensive learning if I were to do it on my own. This is with undergrad degrees in Comp Sci and Physics too. So I decided to hack the problem and join a startup in SF thats doing novel hard tech !(business process automation, ecommerce, apps, small marketplaces etc). Here in Sydney they're few and far between. I'm pretty excited to be working with them, its an opportunity to work and learn with a smart tight team. So advice to you would be to is find a smaller business unit in your current company where you are closer to the coal face or go join a 100 person company working on a hard problem. Usually they'll have a team of 5 PM's supporting a tech team of 30.