Who is Rare Indigo? does anyone know anything about this man?

Question

What I would like is to know as much as possible about this man. Can anyone tell me anything? Where he's from, his age, etc. I would love to hear from Rare Indigo himself if at all possible.

Answer 1

@#@#$@#$

He is a yahoo answers member.
Rare Indigo
Participating since July 04, 2006
He answered this question.

For all IT Management people, have you ever been in a situation like this one?

I've been into IT for the last 16 years, since programmer to CTO ( My actual position ). For all that time I'd bosses who either were IT people or were CEOs from an IT company, so all my bosses knew something about IT and I could work on IT projects with them knowing what I was doing.

Now, I've been for the last 2 months in a company that is a nonprofit organization, my boss who is the COO has no knowledge regarding IT.

Recently I had a long conversation with him ( He made the request to do it ), and told me he saw no good things about my work since I got into the company. I told him that I was searching for OLAP tools for the company ( Since there is no tool to do mining into the DB ), also that I was working with our TIC providers for the new site and deciding which shall be best for 3 developments we have, basically I'm doing my job.

Have you been into a similar situation? If so, what did you do in order for your non IT boss to understand what are you doing?
(6 days ago - 4 answers )



He was given the best answer by the ASKER.

Rare Indigo response was:

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Yes, but not as the CTO. My situation was an IT project where I was the project manager and the sponsor was a techno peasant. The main thing I did to keep him in the loop (and out of my kitchen) without patronizing him was to clearly define the deliverables in lay terms then provide him regular progress updates. I have some IT related experience but I'm not an IT guru. I think this helped because I know that most managers and executives figure you are feeding them a line of bull when you start spouting off the acronyms. They figure you don't expect them to ask for clarification because they don't want to appear dumb but they also figure you know this so you are trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Mine didn't need to understand the minouche of every aspect of my work but he did need to know that we were at least making progress. In fact he has an obligation to do so. It sounds to me like your COO needs to be kept up to date a bit more without running to him at every decision. If he turns out to be a micro manager you should shop for another job. There's a lot out there right now.
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Thank you for your answer, tomorrow I'll be talking with my boss following your example.

Answer 2

Well, see. I would help, but I'm not sure if you're a stalker or not. And I don't feel like having some guy get raped cause of me.

Answer 3

ZNo sure dont.