Engineering Director: Accountability for R&D Management

This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

The project is funded, thanks to the dynamic product manager. It is about to be started.  Engineering director has to be accountable for the delivery of the solution. He is contemplating how to structure the responsibility for this project. He is leading a large portfolio. There are five engineering managers under him. First group works … Read moreEngineering Director: Accountability for R&D Management

PMO Practice Head: Driving Delivery Of All Projects

This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

Program Management As the sales grew, the need for integrated solutions increased. This increased the number of projects involving multiple groups. Also for product within the same group, the influence and dependency of open source increased. So the need for synchronizing releases increased. Also the external partners increased. So did the outsourcing. All these increased … Read morePMO Practice Head: Driving Delivery Of All Projects

Engineering Manager: The Job of Line Management

This entry is part 9 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

After Engineering Director tasked them, the engineering managers swing into action. Consideration for the team formation: EMs know that individuals can not be perfect. But a near-perfect team can be formed considering the individual strengths, improvement areas, skills, career stage etc. The tech leaders and members need to be assigned to the project. In early … Read moreEngineering Manager: The Job of Line Management

Program Manager: Delivery Responsibility of the Program

This entry is part 10 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

After getting assigned as program manager by director, program manager quickly starts his work. His job is complex: Nobody reports to him. He needs to get the delivery done from members named by EMs. He may not have the right technical background to fully understand what technical members. But, Has good past experience of successes and … Read moreProgram Manager: Delivery Responsibility of the Program

Lead Architect: Clarity of Technical Roles (Or Lack of It)

This entry is part 11 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

The Lead Architect in this company is a rather new role. The person who is playing the role had made valuable contributions in the past in some of the products. He is very good in technology and also has deep understanding of the products. He is well networked with technical community. In the past he … Read moreLead Architect: Clarity of Technical Roles (Or Lack of It)

Software Release Manager: Highly Meticulous Job

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

The project OVES is expected to have significant code base. It may run into 2 million lines of source code. The code developed fresh for OVES would be a fraction of this. However lot of reuse was expected from existing products. Video Editor and Tools have existed for several years. Several releases have happened in … Read moreSoftware Release Manager: Highly Meticulous Job