I am a Senior Project Manager at a www company. I am currently managing 12 projects (6 active, 6 ramping up) and 14 people. While my team respects and is motivated by me, I have a hard time getting upper management to listen to me. For example, whenever I document risks or talk about issues on my team & suggest solutions I get blown off. I am starting to think this is because I am a woman and I don’t sound “commanding” enough. Advice on how to get what my team needs more effectively would be appreciated. I have spoken to my boss about my frustrations and I even threatened to light my hair on fire and bang on the table. However, I still don’t get the things my team needs to make our projects successful. We are successful despite what we don?t have ? that is because my team works hard for me ? but for example, not having a Senior Developer on my team the projects and having a team all associate developers and new developers makes our learning curve very steep and it takes us longer to do tasks than it would if we had a Senior experienced developer on our team. I am told ?there is no Senior Developer available? which is B.S ? ?they? just don?t want to break up another team of ALL Senior Developers so my team suffers. It doesn?t make sense to me. Sorry for the rant but I am really bothered by this.
