Technology Managers Stressed, Overworked

[cojak]

I stick all my emails in my archive .pst folders (backed up regulary).

[threaded]

..and keep the email.

But not on the clients email system!

BCC yourself, print it out with full headers, and put it in the client folder you keep at home.

[cojak]

You can only tell the client that what they are doing is stupid (in polite terms of course) once.

After that you have to take the attitude that they are the ones paying the money.

..and keep the email.

[cojak]

Oh no! Renewals darling, one must always remember the renewals!

Yes - only do this once you have told the PM that you don't intend renewing...

[bobhope]

You can only tell the client that what they are doing is stupid (in polite terms of course) once.

After that you have to take the attitude that they are the ones paying the money.

[Churchill]

Sounds about right, but I would add that more than 80% of technology managers I've met know fsck all about what they're managing.

I'd guess it's a little like not knowing how to drive a car and suddenly finding oneself behind the wheel, in the fast lane, doing a ton, and the guy behind is flashing his lights and banging on the horn: I'd be a little stressed too!

Careful Threaded, dear boy.

In my migration to management the thing I found most difficult was controlling the urge to wade into the technical issues concerned and fix the problem myself.

You have to let the little bastards working for you do the techy stuff.
(They get upset otherwise!).

[threaded]

Unless you do it in your end-of-contract handover document...

Oh no! Renewals darling, one must always remember the renewals!

[cojak]

Unless you do it in your end-of-contract handover document...

[threaded]

So true Cojak.

But do remember guys and gals, do not, under any circumstances, say "Told you so" to the client, they tend to get a little peeved.

[cojak]

The only way to cope with the stress to be a contractor.

That way you're relaxed about watching the project go down the tubes despite your best efforts...

[threaded]

Sounds about right, but I would add that more than 80% of technology managers I've met know fsck all about what they're managing.

I'd guess it's a little like not knowing how to drive a car and suddenly finding oneself behind the wheel, in the fast lane, doing a ton, and the guy behind is flashing his lights and banging on the horn: I'd be a little stressed too!

[PropertyCrashUK]

Two out of three information-technology managers are kept awake at night because they are worrying about the performance of their applications — and the cause of that anxiety is often poorly structured companies, according to a new study.

Full story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259941,00.html