With little power comes the great responsibility of an IT manager
In: Leadership
19 Apr 2009I 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 code, testing, writing specifications, providing [...]
In: Leadership
12 Apr 2009This 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 entertaining book Managing Humans, he [...]
In: Leadership
11 Apr 2009I 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 have a strong belief that [...]
This blog is a distillation of the experiences of an IT manager in a Services company somewhere in the deep concrete jungle of Hyderabad, India. I am going to let the beasts out into the city, so beware !