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

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

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 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

Marketing Director: Marketing Strategy For The Portfolio

This entry is part 6 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

Marketing Director: What Is He Up To ? The Portfolio As marketing director, he takes care of video software products and services portfolio. In the video products portfolio, OVES will be the first cloud based service. Apart from this, he is responsible for marketing of video related tools and online services. The customers include both … Read moreMarketing Director: Marketing Strategy For The Portfolio

Product Marketing Manager: The Job of Showing The Money

This entry is part 5 of 12 in the series Tech Company Casestudy

One of the key jobs of the product manager is to make the business case. She is passionate about a new service OVES. She has put in lot of effort to understand similar services, upcoming ones in market, think of differentiating features, estimating revenue potential and so on. For the project, she is going to do … Read moreProduct Marketing Manager: The Job of Showing The Money