My manager has gone on holiday for 2 weeks. For 2 whole, glorious weeks, he is incommunicado. I'm not happy in the same way that other employees might be when their managers are unavailable. No, I'm thrilled because it gives me 2 weeks in which I can work out what on earth is going on with my projects.
You see, the Boss Man, whilst being exceptionally intelligent, is a bit difficult to work with. He's good at defining db schemata, technology constraints and beating up suppliers but he's not all that hot on communicating with the project manager (ie: me). This is always a problem on any sized project, but when the project budget monitor is clocking over to roundabout a million GPB with 3 different suppliers on one project, communication is fairly important. Especially so when one of the aforementioned suppliers has actually been given the boot. Go Boss Man!
Alright, I understand that Boss Man's executive life is packed full of strategic planning meetings, acquisitions and mergers but in that case, wouldn't it be better to relinquish some control of the project and allow the project manager to communicate with the suppliers?
Perhaps I've got the wrong end of the stick completely, but at least I have 2 full weeks to work it out.
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