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From Techie to Boss

Transitioning to Leadership

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  • From Techie to Boss teaches technical people the interpersonal skills and organizational techniques they'll need to transition successfully to leadership roles.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Moving into Management

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 1-11
  3. Your Transition Plan

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 13-36
  4. Time Management

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 37-54
  5. Project Management

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 55-91
  6. Documenting Policies and Procedures

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 93-101
  7. Building Your Team

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 103-118
  8. Resolving Conflicts

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 119-126
  9. Budgets

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 127-134
  10. Root Cause Analysis

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 135-161
  11. Influence Networks

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 163-170
  12. Managing a Dispersed Team

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 171-182
  13. Managing Software Development Teams

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 183-193
  14. Visualizing Requirements

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 195-201
  15. Integrating Third-Party Software

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 203-212
  16. Managing Outside Your Specialty

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 213-218
  17. Taking Care of Yourself

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 219-223
  18. GanttProject

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 225-229
  19. PERT and Gantt Analysis

    • Scott Cromar
    Pages 231-234
  20. Back Matter

    Pages 235-241

About this book

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.  

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.

About the author

Scott Cromar is Senior Manager, Information Systems and Technology at Convergys. He was formerly a Vice President of Technology at the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. He has been a Unix system administrator for two decades, and a project manager, technical team lead, and system architect for more than a decade, periodically building multifunctional operational teams from scratch. He earned his BS in mathematics from Brigham Young University and took an MSCIS in IT Project Management from Boston University. Formerly administrator of the Solaris environment at Princeton University, Cromar is the author of Solaris Troubleshooting Handbook and numerous technical articles.

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eBook USD 34.99
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Softcover Book USD 44.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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