Managing humans biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager
"This is a book of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among the...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
Apress
2007
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Don't be a prick
- Ch. 2. Managers are not evil
- Ch. 3. The Monday freakout
- Ch. 4. Agenda detection
- Ch. 5. Mandate dissection
- Ch. 6. Information starvation
- Ch. 7. Subtlety, subterfuge, and silence
- Ch. 8. Managementese
- Ch. 9. Technicality
- Ch. 10. Avoiding the fez
- Ch. 11. Your resignation checklist
- Ch. 12. Saying no
- Ch. 13. 1.0
- Ch. 14. Taking time to think
- Ch. 15. The soak
- Ch. 16. Malcolm events
- Ch. 17. Capturing context
- Ch. 18. Status reports 2.0
- Ch. 19. Trickle theory
- Ch. 20. A glimpse and a hook
- Ch. 21. Nailing the phone screen
- Ch. 22. Ninety days
- Ch. 23. Bellwethers
- Ch. 24. Nadd
- Ch. 25. A nerd in a cave
- Ch. 26. Meeting creatures
- Ch. 27. Incrementalists and completionists
- Ch. 28. Organics and mechanics
- Ch. 29. Inwards, outwards, and holistics
- Ch. 30. Free electrons
- Ch. 31. Rules for the reorg
- Ch. 32. Offshore risk factor
- Ch. 33. Joe
- Ch. 34. Secret titles