From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to Leadership (repost)

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 before–but 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 front-line 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 puzzle-solving elegance but by how effectively your team contributes to the organization's bottom line.

Techniques and tips for all aspects of management–project, time, scope, risk, dependency, earned value, quality, team roles, distributed team, global team, and conflict management
90-day 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 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.
Table of ContentsMoving 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 Third-Party Software
Managing Outside Your Specialty
Taking Care of Yourself
GanttProject
PERT and Gantt Analysis


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