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ISBN-10: 1430259329
ISBN-13: 9781430259329
Edition: 2013
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From Techie to Boss teaches any technical person making the transition from team player to team leader all those management techniques and soft skills you always ignored or despised, but which you suddenly need now—and fast. Most IT companies do not have new manager programs to train techies how to step up to the next level, and experienced technical managers rarely remember how difficult it was to make the transition. Veteran team lead and project manager Scott Cromar lays out the classical management training course, but stripped down to precisely the essentials that techies need to start managing now. He appreciates that a front-line techie getting a field promotion to team leader just… doesn’t have the time to get an MBA or wade through a 700-page generic management textbook with 400 pages of irrelevant material.The author appreciates how you got to this point. Your technology team lost its lead, and management has tapped you, the team’s standout techie, to jump into the breach. Why you, instead of some experienced manager from the outside? Because you’re ready to hit the ground running. Because you know better than anybody else the project’s technical challenges and the pertinent strengths and weaknesses of the team’s players. Because the team already trusts you and respects your competence. And on your side, what’s not to like? You bumped up against the pay ceiling for senior technician a while ago; now you can break through to management compensation and upward mobility.The author also appreciates why you need this book. The skills that make you a good techie are necessary but not sufficient to make you a good technical manager. The rules of your world have abruptly changed. You will no longer be judged by how elegantly you solve technical puzzles. You will now be judged by how effectively your team contributes to the bottom line of the overall business. From Techie to Boss shows you how to translate and adapt the analytic skills that made you an outstanding techie to your new responsibilities as a technical manager. Even more crucially, this book teaches you a whole new set of interpersonal, organizational, and metrical skills you never needed before, but without which you cannot succeed as a manager.What you’ll learnThe new skills you’ll learn for leading technical teams include:Scope, techniques, team roles, and tips for all aspects of management: project, time, risk, dependency, earned value, quality, distributed team, global team, and conflict management90-day plan pointers, such as managing your boss, selecting early wins, defining scope, gathering requirements, developing a WBS, and documenting procedures and complianceTroubleshooting techniques such as Current Reality Tree and Pareto diagramsProject scheduling techniques such PERT and GANNTRequirements analysis using UML and AgileWho this book is forThis book is for technical people who have been (or hope to be) promoted to technical team lead or technical manager. Its primary audience is IT technicians with degrees in computer science or engineering who are primarily concerned not with programming but with systems, operations, or hardware—such as network technicians, operations engineers, hardware troubleshooters, database operators, storage engineers, and human–machine interface specialists. The book teaches management-caliber techies the skills they’ll need to make the jump to being successful project managers and multifunctional operational team leaders, on their way to becoming senior project managers, system and network administrators, and program managers. The book’s primary audience is assumed to have a utilitarian or avocational knowledge of programming but not to be programmers by profession. The book has no code. The book’s secondary audience is programmers who are at a point in their careers when they can profit from general guidelines and tips for new IT team leads and project managers. A special section of the book serves this secondary audience by articulating the intersection between the general guidelines in the book and the various methodologies specific to software development that are dealt with at length in many other books.