Lopp Managing Humans

More Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
4th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4842-7116-2
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten, eBook

In this fourth edition of the bestselling business book Managing Humans, author MichaelLopp continues to draw leadership advice from some of the most important softwarecompanies of our modern age. Educational stories from companies such as Apple, Slack, andPinterest detail the experiences of bright software engineers in an ever-changing industry.

This revised edition of Managing Humans expands on the previous editions’ explorations of management essentials including handling stress, building diverse teams, running inclusive meetings, and how to lead in times of crisis. The education of a great leader never stops, and Lopp applies crucial insights to help continue your never-ending leadership education. Whether it is approaching a myriad of engineering personalities or handling unexpected conflict, you will come away with the wisdom to handle any team situation.

The engineering culture of a company can determine the difference between a product’s ultimate success or failure. Managing Humans is here to guide managers and aspiring managers into the intimidating world of people and their vastly different personalities. Handle conflict, infuse innovation into your approach, and be the most confident manager you can be after reading this book.

“It is so satisfying to read the work of an author who articulates something we know,but can’t put our finger on, and then answers the excitement of fresh revelation withuseful solutions or a frame to think about what we’ve just learned—all done in a breezy,knowing prose, that invites you to constantly write margin notes to capture the newthinking it invites.”

John Dickerson, author, CBS News correspondent

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lopp, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 is Rands in Repose. Michael lives in northern California, never far from the ocean.