The issues in this case are not so much coding but project management.

For instance there was that lady who ran Health and Human Services when there was the troubled Obamacare project, and when she testified before Congress she was like "What could I have done about it?"

At that level "getting it done" is about realistic planning, managing vendors and such.

That's a good point, but I think having a basic understanding of software development issues would provide a project manager with the insights needed to know that something should be done at all, at which point they would then need the ability to do something.