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Managing Humans

Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Michael Lopp
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  • Specific insight into the software development process from inside name brand companies such as Apple, Netscape, Borland, and Symantec

  • Conversation-style writing with a distinct lack of Managementese

  • Variety of different approaches for creating innovative, happy development teams

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Management Quiver

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Don’t Be a Prick

      Pages 3-5

    3. Managers Are Not Evil

      Pages 7-16

    4. The Monday Freakout

      Pages 17-20

    5. Agenda Detection

      Pages 21-25

    6. Mandate Dissection

      Pages 27-31

    7. Information Starvation

      Pages 33-36

    8. Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence

      Pages 37-41

    9. Managementese

      Pages 43-45

    10. Technicality

      Pages 47-51

    11. Avoiding the Fez

      Pages 53-59

    12. Your Resignation Checklist

      Pages 61-65

    13. Saying No

      Pages 67-70

  3. The Process is the Product

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-72
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    2. I.O

      Pages 73-81

    3. Taking Time to Think

      Pages 83-88

    4. The Soak

      Pages 89-92

    5. Malcolm Events

      Pages 93-97

    6. Capturing Context

      Pages 99-101
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About this book

Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's web site, Rands in Repose. Drawing on Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full 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 these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual have been given power over your future and your bank account.

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.

About the author

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, Netscape, Symantec, Borland International, 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.

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