Hello list, Well, I've been an IT Director for about half a year now. In this time I have learned quite a bit more about what it takes to be a manager and the amount of self discipline it requires to keep all of the pieces on the chessboard moving safely.
After 6 months, my self evaluation is I suck at being in charge of an IT department, and by gosh I want to fix that. I am asking for your opinions on all manners of self-help: certification ideas, books that have helped you "grok" how a department should work properly, ways to improve process management, things of this nature. I want to be the best I can be and I know that a lot of the people on this list have "been there, done that" and have lived to tell the tale. I'd love to hear yours. I struggle since the place where I work still has a lot of startup mentality but they're getting to the size where we need to start making it "enterprisey" to keep things moving smoothly. A lot of the people in the organization feel like making things more enterprise-like means that they'll be mired in paperwork and mucky-muck and it's tough to break that opinion. What are your experiences? Thanks in advance, Pete
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