Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (Paperback)

Mickey W. Mantle, Ron Lichty

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“Mantle and Lichty 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 are great blueprints for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.”

—Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora

 

“I wish I’d had this material available years ago. I see lots and lots of ‘meat’ in here that I’ll use over and over again as I try to become a better manager. The writing style is right on, and I love the personal anecdotes.”

—Steve Johnson, VP, Custom Solutions, DigitalFish 

All too often, software development is deemed unmanageable. The news is filled with stories of projects that have run catastrophically over schedule and budget. Although adding some formal discipline to the development process has improved the situation, it has by no means solved the problem. How can it be, with so much time and money spent to get software development under control, that it remains so unmanageable?

 

In Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams , Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty answer that persistent question with a simple observation: You first must make programmers and software teams manageable. That is, you need to begin by understanding your people—how to hire them, motivate them, and lead them to develop and deliver great products. Drawing on their combined seventy years of software development and management experience, and highlighting the insights and wisdom of other successful managers, Mantle and Lichty provide the guidance you need to manage people and teams in order to deliver software successfully.

 

Whether you are new to software management, or have already been working in that role, you will appreciate the real-world knowledge and practical tools packed into this guide.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「Mantle and Lichty已經整理出一本指南,將幫助您聘請、激勵和指導一個能夠達到最高水平的軟體開發團隊。他們的經驗法則和指導建議是新手和有經驗的軟體工程經理的絕佳藍圖。」- Tom Conrad, Pandora的CTO

「我希望多年前就能夠有這些資料。我在這裡看到了很多實用的內容,我會一遍又一遍地使用,以便成為一個更好的經理。寫作風格非常好,我喜歡其中的個人軼事。」- Steve Johnson, DigitalFish的客戶解決方案副總裁

軟體開發往往被認為是無法管理的。新聞上充斥著那些超過預算和進度的災難性項目的故事。儘管在開發過程中加入了一些正式的紀律,情況有所改善,但這並沒有解決問題。為什麼在花費了如此多的時間和金錢來控制軟體開發後,它仍然如此難以管理?

在《Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams》一書中,Mickey W. Mantle和Ron Lichty以一個簡單的觀察回答了這個持續存在的問題:您首先必須使程式設計師和軟體團隊可管理。也就是說,您需要先了解您的團隊成員-如何聘請他們、激勵他們,並引導他們開發和交付出優秀的產品。Mantle和Lichty結合了他們共同的七十年軟體開發和管理經驗,並突出了其他成功經理的見解和智慧,為您提供了管理人員和團隊以成功交付軟體所需的指導。

無論您是新手軟體管理人員,還是已經在這個角色中工作,您都會喜歡這本指南中充滿了實用工具和真實世界知識。