Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

ISBN-13: 9781590598443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str.

Michael Lopp

Opis

Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's web site, Rands in Repose. Drawing on Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual have been given power over your future and your bank account.Whether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you.

Spis treści

1. Don't Be a Prick
2. Managers are Not Evil
3. The Monday Freakout
4. Agenda Detection
5. Mandate Dissection
6. Information Starvation
7. Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence
8. Managementese
9. Technicality
10. Avoiding the Fez
11. Your Resignation Checklist
12. Saying No
13. 1.0
14. Taking Time to Think
15. The Soak
16. Malcolm Events
17. Capturing Context
18. Status Reports 2.0
19. Trickle Theory
20. A Glimpse and a Hook
21. Nailing the Phone Screen
22. Ninety Days
23. Bellwethers
24. NADD
25. A Nerd in a Cave
26. Meeting Creatures
27. Incrementalists and Completionists
28. Organics and Mechanics
29. Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics
30. Free Electrons
31. Rules for the Reorg
32. Offshore Risk Factor
33. Joe
34. Secret Titles

O autorze

Michael Lopp is a veteran engineering manager who has never managed to escape the Silicon Valley. In over 20 years of software development, Michael has worked at a variety of innovative companies, including Apple, Netscape, Symantec, Borland International, and a startup that slowly faded into nothingness. In addition to his day job, Michael writes a popular technology and management weblog under the nom de plume "Rands," where he discusses his management ideas, worries about staying relevant, and wishes he had time to see more of the world. His weblog can be found at RandsinRepose.com. Michael lives in northern California, never far from the ocean.