Managing Humans More Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager /
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| Summary: | XIII, 364 p. 4 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA :
Apress : Imprint: Apress,
2021.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. 2021. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7116-2 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.