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Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's popular website Rands in Repose(www.randsinrepose.com). Lopp is one of the most sought-after IT managers in Silicon Valley, and draws on his experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland. This book reveals a variety of different approaches for creating innovative, happy development teams. It covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build lasting and useful engineering culture. The essays are biting, hilarious, and always informative.



Table of Contents
  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

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

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      Publisher: APress
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9781590598443, 978-1590598443
      ISBN10: 159059844X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's popular website Rands in Repose(www.randsinrepose.com). Lopp is one of the most sought-after IT managers in Silicon Valley, and draws on his experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland. This book reveals a variety of different approaches for creating innovative, happy development teams. It covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build lasting and useful engineering culture. The essays are biting, hilarious, and always informative.



      Table of Contents
      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

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