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RE: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

From: <Rachel_Carmichael_at_Sonymusic.com>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 05:33:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0045B504.20020508053325@fatcity.com>

see? I TOLD you all I wasn't a geek :)

I think management style has a lot to do with it as well. Style breaks down into:

managing people
managing projects

in the first case, you take into consideration the people themselves, what motivates them, what sort of "carrot" you can dangle in front of them, and treat them as you would want to be treated (time off if needed, "go home early, it's not busy", the occasional "boss buys the drinks after work")

In the second case, you drive work by deadlines, do not consider that the people who work for you might have a life and associated problems and needs outside of work.

I've NEVER seen a "project" manager well-liked. I've almost always seen a "people" manager well-liked.

And yes, in both cases, the work got done, on time.

Wanna guess which type I try to be?

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I see it like this.

You can split it down further.

Technical people fall into two categories (OK a bit of a generalisation)

  1. Geeks
  2. People who are technical yet share other interests outside of the IT world.

Im my experience I find that those who fall under the latter category make good managers.

At my last job there were two production teams. A Platinunm service team and a gold service team dependant on which level of service the client had bought. I headed up the Platinum team, a colleague headed up the other side.

My interests outside of work include cooking, going to soccer matches, socialising (OK, going to bars and drinking) etc. etc. etc

The other guys interests at home were buying all sorts of gadgetry, playing with computers, writing his own operating systems etc. etc

I was regarded as a v. good manager (I still see members of my old team socially and still get praised on my management style).

The other guy (who still works there) was talked about behind his back mistrusted and generally disliked and now works in an environment where he no longer has staff under him.

I think what I am trying to say is that it is OK to be a technical sort and be a manager but I think to be successful you must be a "people person" as well. A lot of geeks out there can only interact with machines and have great difficulty in relating to members of their own species ;-)

Lee

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It all depends on the background of the Manager - where have they built there careers as a Manager. My current Manager wanted me to check some info using TOAD as ORACLE was not able to answer her questions. I work for a MNC that is known thru out the world.

Fazal


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