The Benefits of Management Frameworks

Many DrupalCon attendees will have significant management responsibilities as part of their job. At a higher level, you might be a business owner, director, CEO, CTO, and your responsibilities are more obvious. But it's not just the boardroom who have significant management responsibilities. You might also be a manager in charge of a significant team or an important system if you're a project manager, development team lead, systems manager, etc.

One of the problems with "management" as a discipline is it often isn't taught to people. It's something people often end up adopting (or maybe getting pushed into) for a number of reasons - perhaps they care more than anyone else about a particular thing, perhaps there is simply no one else with the necessary domain knowledge, perhaps they have the personality. And yet, good management is critical to effective business growth, it's key to being efficient, organised and consequently profitable. Profitable enough to make the next step forward. 

That's where management frameworks can really help you. When you think of management frameworks, you usually think of scary standards, like ISOs and ITIL and Prince2, but they're really not where it starts. The reality is most people already have management frameworks in place, they just don't realise. Helping your managers recognise their structures, apply them consistently and drive them forward will help your business go from strength to strength. And it will also help them feel more confident in their role, having clear tools and direction.

The goal of this session is to help people understand what a management framework is, understand how to get to grips with whatever it is they have already and turn it into a model for continuous improvement, growth and (potentially) future certification (if you care about that sort of thing).

• You manage someone, some people, something very important to the place where you work
• You want to figure out how you can be better at managing that thing
• You want to see the thing you manage get bigger and better every day!
• YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A C-SUITE EXECUTIVE TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF THIS! :-)

• I've been in tech senior management of some sort or another for over 10 years
• I run (with my colleagues) a successful specialist Drupal company
• I've worked for HUGE companies, I've worked for tiny companies, I've worked for myself
• I've implemented management frameworks
• I'm a British Standards Institute trained internal auditor
• Hopefully I can tell you something that will help you improve! :-)