Managing the Unmanageable, 2nd Edition
The #1 Guide to Delivering Better Software by Managing Developers More Effectively— Now Extensively Updated “Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Addison-Wesley Professional,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st edition. |
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| Online Access: | Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | The #1 Guide to Delivering Better Software by Managing Developers More Effectively— Now Extensively Updated “Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice form a great blueprint for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.” —Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora “Reading this book’s nuggets felt like the sort of guidance that I would get from a trusted mentor. A mentor who I not only trusted, but one who trusted me to take the wisdom, understand its limits, and apply it correctly.” —Mike Fauzy, CTO, FauzyLogic Today, many software projects still run catastrophically over schedule and budget, and still don’t deliver what customers want. Some organizations conclude that software development can’t be managed well. But it can—and it starts with people. In their eagerly awaited, extensively updated Managing the Unmanageable, Second Edition, Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty show how to hire and develop programmers and build teams that are truly, consistently manageable. Drawing on a combined 80 years of industry experience, the authors share Rules of Thumb, Nuggets of Wisdom, checklists, and other tools for successfully leading programmers and teams, whether they’re co-located or dispersed worldwide. This edition adds extensive new Agile coverage, new approaches to recruitment and onboarding, expanded coverage of handling problem employees, and much more. Whether you’re new to software management or you’ve done it for years, you’ll find indispensable advice for handling your realities and delivering outstanding software. Manage programmers as the individuals they are Find, recruit, and hire great programmers, one step at a time Integrate new hires quickly, effectively, and productively Master the arts of managing down and managing up Defuse tension while still achieving your goal Motivate programmers to accomplish truly great feats Create a successful development subculture even in a toxic company Succeed as a leader of self-directed agile teams |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780135667361 9780135667637 |