Experience from programmers to managers

 

As a technician, it is not difficult to become a manager, as long as you stick to this job. In a Chinese atmosphere, when a technician reaches a certain level of experience, ability, and age, the company will try to improve his position and enter a management position, such as Project Manager, R & D Director, Technical Department Manager, and Technical Director. Few companies are allowed to have a programmer in his thirds. Even if he is doing technical work, he will be given a big title.

After entering the management position, the pain began. Although both professional and technical personnel are technical personnel, the former focuses on technology and the latter focuses on management, and the nature of work has been significantly different. Management is more complex than technology. Management is about people, technical work is about computers, and people are much more complicated than computers. If you do not have any technical skills, you need to perform management in the calendar year. The managed English word "Manage" is a synthesis of man and time.

I am also a technical engineer. The pains I have experienced may help you grow fast.

The fate of the king

Management work, no matter how good you are, someone will give you comments, and someone will be dissatisfied. In comparison, it is so happy to do technical work, so you don't have to worry about it, so you don't have to worry about it. It's easy to do it, and the work will always be praised by everyone.

When I was a manager, I couldn't help writing code. On the one hand, I was not able to break down tasks because of lack of management capabilities. On the other hand, I was not satisfied with the work they were doing. The most important thing was, I feel so happy to write code. Although I also write code now, the purpose is not to experience happiness, but to feel that as a Technical Manager, we should not discard the technology, and the focus is no longer on programming.

At that stage, I was very confused. I didn't know how to do my job well. Team members raised comments all day, and the company leaders blamed more than encouraged me. My self-confidence fell to the freezing point, I even thought about giving up management. But to tell the truth, there are some unwilling and some Chinese people's official ideas. After all, they are mixed into a small leader. They are really coming down, but they have no face.

In this process, I have read a lot of management books and Management lectures, and I have never been able to learn the essentials. I once strolled around in the bookstore and saw the "Meditation record" pick up and read it. I knew this book. Previously, the central leaders recommended books to the society, and Wen Jiabao recommended the "Meditation record". That is to say, it will affect my life-long sentence (not exaggerated at all ).

"The fate of the king is to be praised for good deeds ".

I don't hesitate to buy this book. If a book has a word worth it, it will cost tens of dollars.

In the previous paragraph, a friend had just become a project manager and complained to me on QQ. I said, I will give you a sentence: "The fate of the king is to be praised for good deeds." managers must have the mind of the King, not only dare to take responsibility, but also have the courage to accept criticism, believe that you are right. Just do it. A few seconds later, his QQ signature turned into this sentence; a few months later, he said he felt he was qualified.

In my management work, every time I promote my supervisor, I will give this sentence to them. I don't worry about their technical capabilities. I'm worried about their psychological endurance. In fact, this sentence is similar to saying "Let others talk about it", but it is more arrogant.

Ziren Chuan

At the beginning of management, task breakdown was a headache for me.

How can I reasonably assign tasks to team members so that they can be easily completed and quality can be ensured? This is really a difficult problem for me.

It is often because tasks cannot be broken down, and the Team has no time to control the progress of their own jobs. Or, after the team members finish their jobs, they reach out and redo the jobs again. Obviously, I am doing better and faster. Looking at the eyes of programmers, there is also a little sense of accomplishment. But in the end, I am so tired that I have not fallen well and complained.

In this process, I focused on project management, and then I took an information system project manager. I am very clear that I should be able to build a high-profile architecture. I also summarized a sentence, "low-profile work, high-angle examination ". In fact, I don't know how to go to the "high-angle view ". Although many methods are described in the book, they cannot satisfy themselves.

By mistake, I read miscellaneous books in the library and saw Liu Zongyuan's "ziren Chuan". I felt a little touched. When I went to work, I searched for this article on the Internet and read it carefully, I also read comments from many people. Although there is no such thing, it can be used a lot.

For example:

"He will give up his skills, but his mind is dedicated to knowing what to do"

"Don't show off the power, don't give names, don't kiss Xiao Lao, don't invade the public Palace, and discuss their major classics with talented people in the world on a daily basis. ."

I have completely violated these principles. The ideas are not correct, and the methods are useless.

Methods, techniques, and potential

In order to standardize development behaviors, I have developed many systems, because from my own management ideology, I advocate systematic management. I have learned a lot about development methods and models. I have been studying them for a long time. However, any method applied to R & D is a bunch of problems. When someone challenges this question, I will always cite the evidence to debate it, so that the other party cannot refute it. In fact, I also know that he is "convinced ".

I don't know what went wrong. I believe everything I learned is correct. Why can't it be implemented?

I was confused when I was talking to a friend about such things a few days ago. I told him that I have actually experienced this stage. I suggest you have time to read "Han Feizi". At that time, I carefully read "Han Feizi" (but I didn't finish reading it, at least more carefully than I did before.

Han Feizi is a classic legalist. We always think that the "law" advocated by the legalists is the systematic management. In fact, the essence of a legalist is not only "law", but also law, technique, and trend.

A law is a system, a regulation, or a standard. It has certain limitations, but it is not for restraint, but for standardization.

Technology is a means and a skill. For example, when someone else finds that they are not doing what they want, don't criticize it. Instead, you should say, "You are doing well, but I think, there is still much room for improvement."

Power is power and responsibility. For example, Han Feizi said that although Xiao Jing is very bad, if he is not sitting in the king's position, he cannot harm the world. Yao Shun is wise and wise, if you are not sitting in the king's position, it will not benefit the world.

When we comment on the legalist's ideas, we always say "fa Taibei" and use cases of failures in the Qin Dynasty. In fact, no matter which dynasty is following the Qin Dynasty, that is, the so-called "Confucianism" (the surface is Confucianism, but it is actually Confucianism ). In the Tang Dynasty, he copied the Qin system in a wide range. In order not to let others gossip, Liu Zongyuan said a famous saying: "The loss of Qin, the loss of politics, not the loss of the system ", that is to say, the Qin Dynasty's system is very good, because they have problems with management.

It is necessary to apply it to our management. Second, we need to consider the issue of management means, rather than relying entirely on the system. Finally, we need to put the right people in the right positions and clarify their responsibilities.

We can learn from and even copy the "law. However, the "technique" requires the management art because of the location system. However, the "trend" needs to be applied in a variety of ways. It not only requires superb management art, but also boldly authorizes and dares to delegate power.

Postscript

I wanted to write an article titled maintaining the biodiversity of the spiritual world. Later I started my head and never wrote it down. Technical personnel are experts and management personnel are miscellaneous. It is good for you to read more books. It will always be useful if you just read a good book or take care of what it is.

Management books outside China are easy to understand, but we still need to learn a lot about Chinese civilization.