IT Manager Career Secrets: Tips And Techniques That IT Managers Can Use In Order To Have A Successful Career

by Jim Anderson

Overview

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: manage our careers.

It can be all too easy to forget about actively managing your IT manager career. In fact, some of us make a conscious decision that we're not going to spend any time on it – we'll just let things take care of themselves.

What You'll Find Inside:
* EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FEEL PASSED OVER
* BUT I WANT TO WORK 80 HOURS A WEEK…!
* 5 STEPS TO HELP AN IT MANAGER FIND A MENTOR
* HOW CAN AN IT MANAGER GET AHEAD AT YOUR COMPANY?

It turns out that this can be one of the worst decisions that you'll ever make. For you see, if you ignore your IT manager career, there is a very good chance that everyone else will ignore it also. Time will pass and one day you'll look around and discover that you are right where you were a long time ago – nothing has changed!

Instead, take charge of your career! How fast your career advances will be based on your personal performance and how well your team performs. In order to manage your career, you are going to have to take charge of both of these items.

The good news is that it's not all that hard to do. There are several steps, like finding a mentor, which will speed you on your way to your next promotion. Take your time and carefully read each of the chapters in this book to get hints on what steps you need to start taking today in order to take charge of your career.

Keep in mind that in this whole entire world, you are the person who is the most interested in you being successful. That means that you need to step up and accept responsibility for your career. Invest the time and I'm sure that you are going to be very pleased with the results that you are able to achieve!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046222586
Publisher:	Autism and Behavior Center
Publication date:	10/05/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Dr. Jim Anderson is a talented engineer, teacher, and marketing professional. Born in Iowa City, Iowa his family moved many times during his childhood eventually settling just outside of St. Louis Missouri in Edwardsville, Illinois. Dr. Anderson went on to earn four college degrees: three in Computer Science including a doctoral degree and an MBA in marketing. He has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years for both large companies (Boeing, Siemens, Alcatel, and Verizon) as well as at some start-ups during that whole "dot com" thing. Dr. Anderson is now the founder and President of Blue Elephant Consulting. Blue Elephant Consulting shows technical professionals and groups how to use their business communication skills to change the world. By using its Clear Blue Knowledge Systems Blue Elephant Consulting shows them how to become successful communicators and set their ideas free thereby changing the world. Dr. Anderson provides consulting, coaching, speaking and training products and services to help in 5 key areas of business communications: public speaking, product management, IT team management, IT department leadership, and negotiating. Based on his experiences with many different customers, Dr. Anderson has taken the lessons that he's learned in the real world and has documented both the issues and their solutions in the books that he has written. Each book is filled with a unique set of real world challenges that product managers, CIOs, negotiators, IT managers, and public speakers encounter on an almost daily basis. In clear, easy to understand language, Dr. Anderson lays out exactly what the challenge is and then how to go about easily solving it. In addition to running his company, Dr. Anderson has had the opportunity to teach college courses at multiple universities. While doing this Dr. Anderson discovered that his students had a real need for information on how to get their first job after they graduated. His after class one-on-one discussions about the tips and techniques that today's college students could use to simplify their job search lead to speaking engagements and eventually to the book "Making The Jump: How To Land Your First Job After College!"

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Architectural Design
• Chapter 3: The Architecture Design Process
• Chapter 4: Case Study: FCAPS System
• Chapter 5: Case Study: Big Data System
• Chapter 6: Case Study: Banking System
• Chapter 7: Other Design Methods
• Chapter 8: Analysis in the Design Process
• Chapter 9: The Architecture Design Process in the Organization
• Chapter 10: Final Words
• Appendix A: A Design Concepts Catalog
• Appendix B: Tactics-Based Questionnaires
• Glossary
• About the Authors
• Index