Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 232 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 1st Edition March 8, 1994
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471009970
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471009979
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 11.4 ounces
Product Review
Managing software Maniacs is a light, sometimes humorous guide to managing
software development teams. It assumes that readers are either already development team managers or on the way to becoming them. Author Ken Whitaker begins by explaining his ideal order of the team leader's priorities and how to get them straight. Once everyone's goals are in line, Whitaker proposes methods for recruiting the best additions to your team, sharpening your own skills as a leader, establishing good scheduling practices, and coping with unforeseen forces, such as intraoffice dynamics and the dreaded marketing department.
Each chapter is peppered with "Practical Maniac Tips" (there's even a "maniac" icon), "Reality Checks" to keep you focused, and "Rules for the Unruly" to keep your more "unique" team members from causing too much trouble.
Product Description
Using a humorous yet practical style, it offers great advice on every aspect of programmer management. Topics range from finding
software developers, rewarding them and building an effective team.
Reader ReviewsKen's insights proved very useful in my research (we reference it in our latest AntiPatterns book). I especially enjoyed Ken's take on the popular "cubicles" versus offices debate. I recommend this as one of the many books software managers should read.
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