{"product_id":"9781430259336","title":"From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to Leadership","description":"\u003cp\u003e    From \u003cem\u003eTechie to Boss\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  From\u003cem\u003e Techie to Boss\u003c\/em\u003e 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.       \u003c\/p\u003e    What you’ll learn\u003cp\u003eThe new skills you’ll learn for leading technical teams include: \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTechniques and tips for all aspects of management—project, time, scope, risk, dependency, earned value, quality, team roles, distributed team, global team, and conflict management \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e90-day plan pointers, such as managing your boss, selecting early wins, defining scope, gathering requirements, developing a WBS, documenting procedures, and compliance \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTroubleshooting techniques such as Current Reality Tree and Ishikawa diagrams \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eProject scheduling methods, including work breakdown structures and dependency management with GANTT and PERT charts \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eRequirements analysis using UML and Agile \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  Who this book is for      \u003cp\u003e     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.         \u003c\/p\u003e     Table of Contents\u003col\u003e  \u003cli\u003eMoving into Management \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eYour Transition Plan \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTime Management \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eProject Management \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eDocumenting Policies and Procedures \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eBuilding your Team \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eResolving Conflicts \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eBudgets \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eRoot Cause Analysis \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eInfluence Networks \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eManaging a Dispersed Team \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eManaging Software Development Teams \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eVisualizing Requirements \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eIntegrating Third-Party Software  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eManaging Outside Your Specialty  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTaking Care of Yourself \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eGantt Project \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003ePERT and Gantt Analysis  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122663964912,"sku":"9781430259336","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430259336_p0.jpg?v=1763751017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430259336","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}