Managing Humans [electronic resource] : Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager /
Lopp, Michael.author.
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.
Includes index.
The Management Quiver -- Don't Be a Prick -- Managers Are Not Evil -- The Monday Freakout -- Agenda Detection -- Mandate Dissection -- Information Starvation -- Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence -- Managementese -- Technicality -- Avoiding the Fez -- Your Resignation Checklist -- Saying No -- The Process is the Product -- I.O -- Taking Time to Think -- The Soak -- Malcolm Events -- Capturing Context -- Status Reports 2.0 -- Trickle Theory -- Versions of You -- A Glimpse and a Hook -- Nailing the Phone Screen -- Ninety Days -- Bellwethers -- NADD -- A Nerd in a Cave -- Meeting Creatures -- Incrementalists and Completionists -- Organics and Mechanics -- Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics -- Free Electrons -- Rules for the Reorg -- Offshore Risk Factor -- Joe -- Secret Titles.
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.
Software engineering.
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.