Hank Rainwater

Herding Cats (eBook, PDF)

A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This self-help guide is targeted at the programmer who has been promoted to management and needs help in adapting to the leadership role. The skills gained as a programmer will be inadequate to lead a team of programmers: training in management and leadership is essential. Author J. Hank Rainwater covers all the key areas that a new manager must master to become an effective leader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apress
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781430208303
• Artikelnr.: 44007569

Autorenporträt

Hank Rainwater leads programmers who build software for the insurance industry at Risk Sciences Group in Atlanta, Georgia. His career in science and engineering has spanned over three decades and has included writing Fortran programs on punch cards; teaching college mathematics; conducting research in radio astronomy, missile guidance systems, and remote sensing technologies; and managing the building of embedded digital control systems. As a software professional, Hank has served as a consultant, mentor, and teacher of programming languages and has led development teams in several industries.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Adapting to Your Leadership Role.- 2: Managing the Leader.- 3: Leading the Herd.- 4: Organizing for Success.- 5: Managing Meetings.- 6: Philosophy and Practice of Technical Leadership.- 7: Leadership in Eclipse.- 8: Leadership Redux.- 9: Working with Your Boss.- 10: Words without a Song.- Afterword: Into the Fray.- Appendix A Caring for Your Pet: The Administrative Director Software.- Appendix B Poking Your Pet in the Eye: Code Review of the Administrative Director.- Context and Origin of the Software.- The Rules of the Game.- Did I Follow Appropriate Standards?.- What About Cohesion and Coupling?.- Other Strengths and Weaknesses.- Summary.- Bibliography: Resources for Cat Herders.- Software Development.- The Classics.- Cream of the Crop.- Noteworthy.- Helpful.- General Management and Leadership.- Software Language-Specific Works.- Miscellaneous Works.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"The book deals with the difficulties of making a number of independently minded programmers work together as a team - a task that has been likened to herding cats. ... This is a very readable textbook and touches on many aspects of management. Once you've read it you should feel better equipped to cope with all those cats ... . If you happen to hate cats, keep an open mind and just accept the phrase as the amusing analogy it is intended to be." (LINUX Magazine, Issue 21, 2002)