Managing humans : biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager / Michael Lopp.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Skillsoft)
Main Author: Lopp, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : New York, N.Y. : Apress ; Distributed to the Book trade by Springer-Verlag, ©2007.
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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.