Chapter 14
Reputations depend on delivering on promises. Once you can do that, people will trust you to spend their money. This means that you must be able to manage projects.
Engineers organise and manage projects to make big things happen.
Most technical work is largely autonomous and relies extensively on social interactions. It is also diverse. You may have 60 or more simultaneous issues to deal with: requests for assistance, coordination of other people, decisions that must be made, collecting information to help with decisions, email correspondence, and administrative issues. What we do each day, the order in which we do it, when we choose to start, what we remember to do, and what we forget, when things get interrupted ...
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