http://manager.sridharvanka.com With little power comes the great responsibility of an IT manager Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:54:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Project management is about ownership more than anything else. This is something that I have heard oft-repeated in PM circles. Yet, I find that more and more project managers these days are trying to run around ownership. As project management drifts away from old-fashioned leadership and becomes a specific niche skill, ... http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=53 Linking to my PMP Certification lessons learnt piece on PMHub.net Sridharvanka:Passed 1st try 10th Dec – scored “Proficient” in all the 6 areas http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=48 For years now, I have been attending project status meetings where people go round the room asking each other variations on one question: "What percent complete is your work ?" "Percent complete" has negative connotations in Scrum as also in the PMBOK. Managers who use percent complete are viewed as ignorant ... http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=41 I have been in the IT industry for more than 11 years now and most of those years have been spent doing jobs that were outsourced. That would mean that I have spent a major portion of my career snatching jobs from other folks. That wouldn't be something that would ... http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=33 I sometimes see the Project Manager as the bridge between the development team and the relationship managers (and other folks higher up in the ladder). I have never seen the bridge "do any work" in the way that work is perceived by humans. Work, in the IT parlance, consists of writing ... http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=24 This is the beginning of the new financial year and every particle in the organization is abuzz with rumours. Of all kinds. People are whispering about pay-cuts, lay-offs, teams getting dissolved, re-organizations, people being put on the bench (which is a pre-cursor to a lay-off) etc Why is that ? In Michael Lopp's ... http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=16 I have been meaning to use this blog as a place to document my professional and personal lessons learnt. The following is an attempt to share some of the lessons I have learnt in my short career as a manager. Delegation for managers Though my lessons come from an IT background, I ... http://manager.sridharvanka.com/?p=11