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.
