Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's popular website Rands in Repose(www.randsinrepose.com). Lopp is one of the most sought-after IT managers in Silicon Valley, and draws on his experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland. This book reveals a variety of different approaches for creating innovative, happy development teams. It covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build lasting and useful engineering culture. The essays are biting, hilarious, and always informative.

Auteur
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.

Résumé

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.

Contenu
The Management Quiver.- Don't Be a Prick.- Managers Are Not Evil.- The Monday Freakout.- Agenda Detection.- Mandate Dissection.- Information Starvation.- Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence.- Managementese.- Technicality.- Avoiding the Fez.- Your Resignation Checklist.- Saying No.- The Process is the Product.- I.O.- Taking Time to Think.- The Soak.- Malcolm Events.- Capturing Context.- Status Reports 2.0.- Trickle Theory.- Versions of You.- A Glimpse and a Hook.- Nailing the Phone Screen.- Ninety Days.- Bellwethers.- NADD.- A Nerd in a Cave.- Meeting Creatures.- Incrementalists and Completionists.- Organics and Mechanics.- Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics.- Free Electrons.- Rules for the Reorg.- Offshore Risk Factor.- Joe.- Secret Titles.