Lord of the Infrastructure

Book excerpt: Whether you are a new Infrastructure Manager or you are hoping to move up into that role, this book provides a prescriptive description of what it takes to be successful in that role. It provides a roadmap to assist you in determining what needs to be your immediate areas of focus, how to navigate relationships, manage your staff, maximize the value you deliver, and deal with company politics and the inevitable landmines they entail. Written by an actual IT manager with over 30 years of experience in roles ranging from running technology in small to medium size companies to running global IT Infrastructure environments in 26 countries around the world with hundreds of staff, the author presents real life examples of situations you will encounter and how to navigate through both the good and the bad. The book describes how you will build both short and long-term plans and execute on those plans. It is about managing technology and technology teams, IT budgets, Risk, Assets, and large IT projects.