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

Read hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands...

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Main Author: Lopp, Michael. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2016.
Edition:3rd ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Business.
Management science.
Management information systems.
Computer science.
Computers.
Software engineering.
Business and Management, general.
Software Management.
Management of Computing and Information Systems.
The Computing Profession.
Software Engineering.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2158-7
Table of Contents:
  • PART I The Management Quiver
  • Chapter 1 Don't Be a Prick
  • Chapter 2 Managers Are Not Evil
  • Chapter 3 Stables and Volatiles
  • Chapter 4 The Rands Test
  • Chapter 5 How to Run a Meeting
  • Chapter 6 The Twinge
  • Chapter 7 The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster
  • Chapter 8 The Monday Freakout
  • Chapter 9 Lost in Translation
  • Chapter 10 Agenda Detection
  • Chapter 11 Dissecting the Mandate
  • Chapter 12 Information Starvation
  • Chapter 13 Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence
  • Chapter 14 Managementese
  • Chapter 15 You’re Not Listening
  • Chapter 16 Fred Hates the Off-Site
  • Chapter 17 A Different Kind of DNA
  • Chapter 18 An Engineering Mindset
  • Chapter 19 Tear It Down
  • Chapter 20 Titles are Toxic
  • Chapter 21 Saying No
  • PART II The Process is the Product
  • Chapter 22 1.0
  • Chapter 23 The Process Myth
  • Chapter 24 How to Start
  • Chapter 25 Taking Time to Think
  • Chapter 26 The Value of the Soak
  • Chapter 27 Capturing Context
  • Chapter 28 Trickle Theory
  • Chapter 29 When the Sky Falls
  • Chapter 30 Hacking Is Important
  • Chapter 31 Entropy Crushers
  • PART III Versions of You
  • Chapter 32 Bored People Quit
  • Chapter 33 Bellwethers
  • Chapter 34 The Ninety-Day Interview
  • Chapter 35 Managing Nerds
  • Chapter 36 NADD
  • Chapter 37 A Nerd in a Cave
  • Chapter 38 Meeting Creatures
  • Chapter 39 Incrementalists and Completionists
  • Chapter 40 Organics and Mechanics
  • Chapter 41 Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics
  • Chapter 42 The Wolf
  • Chapter 43 Free Electrons
  • Chapter 44 The Old Guard
  • Chapter 45 Rules for the Reorg
  • Chapter 46 An Unexpected Connection
  • Chapter 47 Avoiding the Fez
  • Chapter 48 A Glimpse and a Hook
  • Chapter 49 Nailing the Phone Screen
  • Chapter 50 Your Resignation Checklist
  • Chapter 51 Shields Down
  • Chapter 52 Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes
  • Glossary.

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