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

ISBN-13: 9781484271155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 380 str.

Michael Lopp

Spis treści

Part I

1: Don't Be A Prick

2: Managers Are Evil

3: Stables and Volatiles

4: The Rands Test

5: How to Run a Meeting

6: The Twinge

7: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster

8: Lost in Translation

9: Agenda Detection

10: Management via Worry and Crisis

11: Dissecting the Mandate

12: Information Starvation

13: Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence

14: Your Mid-Year Leadership Check-in

15: Managementese

16: You're Not Listening

17: The Hotel Giraffe

18: Fred Hates the Off-Site

19: A Different Kind of DNA

20: An Engineering Mindset

21: Tear It Down

22: Titles Are Toxic

23: Saying No

Part II

24: 1.0

25: The Process Myth

26: How to Start

27: Taking Time to Think

28: Meetings are Not For You

29: The Value of the Soak

30: Capturing Context

31: Trickle Theory

32: When the Sky Falls

33: Hacking is Important

34: WFH

35: Entropy Crushers

36: Your Culture is Rotting

37: The Metronome

Part III

38: Bored People Quit

39: Bellwethers

40: The Ninety-Day Interview

41: Managing Nerds

42: Incrementalists and Completionists

43: NADD

44: A Nerd in a Cave

45: Meeting Creatures

46: Organics and Mechanics

47: Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics

48: The Wolf

49: Free Electrons

50: The Old Guard

51: Rules for the Reorg

52: An Unexpected Connection

53: You are Going on a Quest

54: A Glimpse and a Hook

55: Nailing the Phone Screen

56: Your Resignation Checklist

57: Shields Down

58: Chaotic, Beautiful Snowflakes

59: Epilogue: Fear is a Liar

Glossary

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, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Borland International, Slack, 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 is Rands in Repose. Michael lives in northern California, never far from the ocean.