Managing Humans - Michael Lopp

Managing Humans

Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

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Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2016 | 3rd Revised edition
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-2157-0 (ISBN)
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  • Lopp's hilarious stories with serious lessons extracted from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences managing humans at many of the top companies in Silicon Valley
  • Third Edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes
  • Classic episodes from Rands in Repose remastered for high fidelity and freshness

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
How teams work
How to lead engineers
How to handle conflict
How to hire well
How to motivate employees
How to manage your boss
How to say no
How to understand different engineering personalities
How to build effective teams
How to handle stressed people freaking out
How to run a meeting well
How to scale teams

This book is designed for managers and would-be 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 black & white illustrations, biography
Verlagsort Berkeley
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 534 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Software Entwicklung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte Boss • conflict • engineers • Leadership • Nerd • Personalities • Resignation • Stress • Team
ISBN-10 1-4842-2157-5 / 1484221575
ISBN-13 978-1-4842-2157-0 / 9781484221570
Zustand Neuware
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