[bigethan]

Without shipped features or a trail of closed tickets to point at, what will be your measure of career success?

In my experience making a similar move, I initially made my gauge of success too dependent on others. I had to sit and think to create new metrics and measurements outside of what was currently done in order to show my success.

[cpeterso]

That is a great point. A project manager's quarterly goals, for examples, will be rather meta compared top a developer's. A project manager's success shouldn't be a byproduct of the dev team's work. At the end of the day, you don't have the authority to make developers do anything and you can't take credit for their work. But you should still be able to succeed in your project management job even if the developers don't ship on time.