Title
From Techie To Boss: Transitioning To Leadership,Used
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From Techie to Boss teaches technical people who are making or mulling the transition from team player to team leader all the management techniques and soft leadership skills they never needed beforebut need now, pronto.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 on the fly. He gets it that a frontline techie getting a field promotion to team leader just doesn't have the time to wade through an MBA textbook bulging with irrelevant material.The author appreciates how you got to the place where you need this book. Management tapped you instead of some experienced manager from the outside because you know the technical challenges, company culture, and team players better than anyone else: you're ready to hit the ground running. But the skills that make you an excellent techie are not sufficient to make you a successful manager. The rules of your world have abruptly changed. You will now be judged not by your puzzlesolving elegance but by how effectively your team contributes to the organization's bottom line.Techniques and tips for all aspects of managementproject, time, scope, risk, dependency, earned value, quality, team roles, distributed team, global team, and conflict management 90day plan pointers, such as managing your boss, selecting early wins, defining scope, gathering requirements, developing a WBS, documenting procedures, and compliance Troubleshooting techniques such as Current Reality Tree and Ishikawa diagrams Project scheduling methods, including work breakdown structures and dependency management with GANTT and PERT charts Requirements analysis using UML and Agile Who this book is for This book teaches managementcaliber 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.Table of Contents Moving into Management Your Transition Plan Time Management Project Management Documenting Policies and Procedures Building your Team Resolving Conflicts Budgets Root Cause Analysis Influence Networks Managing a Dispersed Team Managing Software Development Teams Visualizing Requirements Integrating ThirdParty Software Managing Outside Your Specialty Taking Care of Yourself GanttProject PERT and Gantt Analysis 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.
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