On 30/07/2018 06:03, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:09 PM, Alia Atlas <akatlas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
....
>> Has anyone tried writing up basically a business case (possibly per area)
>> to help candidates convince their management - possibly with relatively
>> well-known folks willing to talk to them or provide feedback on perceived
>> value?
>>
>
> I had to pull together a presentation the first time my name was in the
> hat, so I could try to dig it up. Stephen & I regularly offered to speak
> with management and did a few times. I also asked colleagues to write a
> letter about annually as my management had very little insight into what I
> was doing and this helped quite a bit once in the role.
I doubt that a one-size-fits-all business case can be written. I had
to convince two very different managements (a non-commercial scientific
research lab, and a major IT vendor) to fund participation in IETF
roles, and the arguments I had to use were utterly different in the
two cases.
Brian
