Managing the Unmanageable (Pearson Education)

The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better SoftwareâEUR"Now Extensively Updated âEURśLichty 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.âEURť âEUR"Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora âEURśReading this bookâEUR(TM)s 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.âEURť âEUR"Mike Fauzy, CTO, FauzyLogic Today, many software projects continue to run catastrophically over schedule and budget, and still donâEUR(TM)t deliver what customers want.

Some organizations conclude that software development canâEUR(TM)t be managed well. But it canâEUR"and 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 theyâEUR(TM)re co-located 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 youâEUR(TM)re new to software management or youâEUR(TM)ve done it for years, youâEUR(TM)ll 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 self-directed agile teams to thrive and succeed Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available.

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