John Meets His Team

It's Friday.  Alicia had set up a meeting with the Enterprise Engineering Services team to introduce John as their new manager for 10am in the Enterprise conference room. Diane will chair the meeting.  Elaine, John, Harry, Rahul, Marva, Lesley, James, Bill, and Brian have already taken their seats around the conference room table.  Satish, Jane, Lance, Shyam, and Roman have joined the conference call using Teams. 

Going into the meeting, John is a little apprehensive.  This is the beginning of his management career.  Self-doubt starts to creep in when you try something new.  John thinks about the "Peter Principle".  Is this job going to be too much for him?  Is he able to handle the extra pressure? 

Oh, the meeting is about to start.

Diane: Ok, good morning everyone. Well, you have probably heard this already, but I wanted to have a meeting with you to formally introduce John as your new manager, and answer any questions you may have.  I also want to thank Elaine again for her years leading this team.  Elaine, today's your last day, right?

Elaine: Yes, Diane. And everyone, I'll miss you all.  It was great seeing those of you who could join me for dinner Wednesday evening.

Diane hosted a farewell dinner for Elaine at Bud and Marylin's, a local American restaurant within walking distance of the office.   

Elaine: John and I will have a final turnover meeting after this one to go over a few things that are in progress.

Diane: Sure, thanks Elaine.  Does anyone have any questions?

Harry: I have a question for John.  John, when do we all get a raise?

John: Thanks for the question Harry.  I'll get back to you.

Diane: Ok, if there are no other questions, we'll adjourn this meeting. Thanks everyone!

Everyone leaves the conference room except John and Elaine.  Elaine opens her notebook.

Elaine: Ok John, one final status on the two activities that are still in progress. First, the Wi-Fi 6 development project.  As you know, Rahul, Lesley and Roman are working on this one.  They are essentially done the development, and have completed unit testing.  So next week there is a meeting with the QA team to start the test planning.  I'll forward you the meeting invitation.

John: Right, I think I got an email from the project manager already about that one.

Elaine: Good.  The other thing is the security camera RTSP standardization project.  Satish and Harry have been working on a firmware upgrade.  It went through QA testing already.  I'll send you the test results report in an email.  There are a number of bugs that were found, and so we have to get them fixed ASAP to stay on schedule.

John: Right, got it.  I'll have to push this one along very quickly.

After the meeting, John was feeling a little stressed.  He wondered, is this what I have to expect from now on?  Was this a good idea?  John took a deep breath, and said to himself that he will get used to this.  He was glad it was Friday.  He'll have the weekend to get his head around it.