IT Manager's Handbook: The Business Edition
Bill Holtsnider author Brian D Jaffe author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology
Published:9th Nov '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
From best-selling authors Bill Holtsnider and Brian Jaffe comes the long awaited follow-up to the IT Manager's Handbook - a no-nonsense guide to the business side of managing an IT department in today's highstakes corporate environment!
A must-have guide for the advancing technology professional who is looking to move up into a supervisory role, and is ideal for newly-promoted IT managers who needs to quickly understand their positions. It offers information on managing an IT department in a corporate environment. It focuses on Web 2.0 ideas and how they impact organizations.IT Manager’s Handbook: The Business Edition is a MUST-HAVE guide for the advancing technology professional who is looking to move up into a supervisory role, and is ideal for newly-promoted IT managers who needs to quickly understand their positions. It uses IT–related examples to discuss business topics and recognizes the ever-changing and growing demands of IT in today’s world as well as how these demands impact those who work in the field. Specific attention is paid to the latest issues, including the challenges of dealing with a mobile and virtual workforce, managing Gen-X/Yers, and running an IT organization in a troubled economy. Rich with external references and written in-easy-to-read sections, IT Manager’s Handbook: The Business Edition is the definitive manual to managing an IT department in today’s corporate environment.
"The role of IT is changing as businesses depend more and more on technology as a critical component to their success. This Business Edition of the IT Manager’s Handbook series is targeted to help IT leaders make this transition possible, and provides new guidance on how an IT leader can help transform into a business partner." --Jim Chilton, Chief Information Officer, Americas - Dassault Systemes"After learning how to manage a team of developers the hard way – making my share of mistakes in the real world – I now wish I had read some books on management before entering the workforce. This book provides a clear, easy-to-use resource for a technical person who is moving into management. It weaves in new concepts such as Web 2.0 and social engineering in a way that communicates in a straightforward manner to both technical and business people. This text should be required reading for technical staff to communicate the needs of a business – and it will be required reading for my development teams." --George M. Stragand, Director of Software Development, ClickFox"Overall, the IT Manager Handbook, the Business Edition, is a good introduction to the many challenges of management...The book provides the reader with a realistic approach to managing IT teams and a dozen of useful checklists, giving the new managers the necessary foundation to establish good practices and the business acumen they need to be successful in their careers." --ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ISBN: 9780123751102
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 800g
392 pages