Comment by 2d8a875f-39a2-4
5 days ago
Nah, this lays out what everyone knows going in and leaves out what you really need to know as a newby.
Budget. Getting some for your team or at least for your priorities. Protecting what you get. Capex vs Opex.
Upward management. Translating messages upwards. Interpreting C suite decrees. Pacing and leading. Inducting new leadership before they fuck things up.
Retention. Keeping the people you need on your team. Cutting the people you don't. Compensation and promotions.
All of which is to say, Politics. How to not come out a loser at the game of thrones next time there is a merger, reorg, budget season, or just end of quarter.
> Budget. Getting some for your team or at least for your priorities. Protecting what you get. Capex vs Opex.
Always spend your budget, ideally about 5-10% over (find out what others do)
If you don't, next year you get less. You can't save 20k this year and spend it next year. You can't even save 20k and get rewarded for being cost efficient as you'll be punished with a lower budget next year.
Yes it's stupid.
Yeah, handling stack ranking, calibrations, proving your team's worth, priorities, making sure your team gets work that is visible and highly rewarding, selling your team (did we make a mistake because our team is incompetent or because the project was that challenging), etc.