Managing Humans
Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 in Repose. The Third Edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.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-and help you survive and prosper amid the general craziness of dysfunctional bright people caught up in the chase of riches and power. Scattered in repose among these manic misfits are managers, an even stranger breed of people who, through a mystical organizational ritual, have been given power over the futures and the bank accounts of many others.
Lopp's straight-from-the-hip style is unlike that of any other writer on management and leadership. He pulls no punches and tells stories he probably shouldn't. But they are magically instructive and yield Lopp's trenchant insights on leadership that cut to the heart of the matter-whether it's dealing with your boss, handling a slacker, hiring top guns, or seeing a knotty project through to completion.
Writing code is easy. Managing humans is not. You need a book to help you do it, and this is it.
What You'll Learn
- Lead engineers
- Handle conflict
- Hire well
- Motivate employees
- Manage your boss
- Discover how to say no
- Understand different engineering personalities
- Build effective teams
- Run a meeting well
- Scale teams
Who This Book Is For
Managers and would-be
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managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bytes for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Managing Humans “
PART I The Management QuiverChapter 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 ManagementeseChapter 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 FallsChapter 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 GuardChapter 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
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Lopp
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 can be found at RandsinRepose.com. Michael lives in northern California, never far from the ocean.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Lopp
- 2016, 3. Aufl., XIII, 331 Seiten, 3 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1484221575
- ISBN-13: 9781484221570
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"I can very warmly recommend this book to anyone who already works in a software engineering management position--whatever level--or who thinks about a career in this direction. It will be entertaining for software engineers as well, at least for understanding how these management beings think and why they might do what they are doing. ... Finally, it will be a fun read for anyone who has just some vague understanding of this management thing." (Frank Pospiech, Computing Reviews, February, 2017)"The book is a witty, hilarious, and insightful look into what it takes to manage people in a software engineering firm. ... this is a great book for managers in any arena, but especially those who work in software engineering. It provides a comprehensive set of tools in the form of bite-sized chapters that can help any manager improve her relationships with subordinates. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers through professionals." (A. Dantes, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017)Kommentar zu "Managing Humans"
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