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The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better SoftwareNow Extensively UpdatedLichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice form a great blueprint for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.Tom Conrad, CTO, PandoraReading this books nuggets felt like the sort of guidance that I would get from a trusted mentor. A mentor who I not only trusted, but one who trusted me to take the wisdom, understand its limits, and apply it correctly.Mike Fauzy, CTO, FauzyLogicToday, many software projects continue to run catastrophically over schedule and budget, and still dont deliver what customers want. Some organizations conclude that software development cant be managed well. But it canand it starts with people. In their extensively updated Managing the Unmanageable, Second Edition, Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty show how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.Drawing on over 80 years of combined industry experience, the authors share Rules of Thumb, Nuggets of Wisdom, checklists, and other Tools for successfully leading programmers and teams, whether theyre colocated or dispersed worldwide. This edition adds extensive new Agile coverage, new approaches to recruitment and onboarding, expanded coverage of handling problem employees, and much more. Whether youre new to software management or youve done it for years, youll find indispensable advice for handling your challenges and delivering outstanding software.Find, recruit, and hire the right programmers, when you need them Manage programmers as the individuals they are Motivate software people and teams to accomplish truly great feats Create a successful development subculture that can thrive even in a toxic company culture Master the arts of managing down and managing up Embrace your role as a manager who empowers selfdirected agile teams to thrive and succeedRegister your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
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