Sumario: | 12+ Hours of Video Instruction Managing Software People and Teams LiveLessons is based upon the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams , which provides programming managers and software leaders at every level with tools, rules of thumb, and insights to help them successfully manage their programmers and teams. This is a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level, and is also useful to directors and VPs of Engineering, as well as VPs of Product and CEOs who rely on software people and teams for their company’s success. Description All too often, software development is deemed unmanageable. The news is filled with stories of projects that have run catastrophically over schedule and budget. In Managing Software People and Teams LiveLessons , based on their book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams , Mickey 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 75-plus 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. In this video training, Mickey and Ron explain what makes managing programmers uniquely challenging, and then provide lessons and tools to hire and manage on-board new programmers successfully, manage and motivate programmers, manage bosses and peers, manage yourself, develop a successful programming culture, and deliver results successfully. They then answer a question that is becoming increasingly important to answer: “If we’re Agile, why do we need a manager?” After watching this video, programming managers and other software leaders through any organization will understand why managing programmers is so hard and seemingly unmanageable, and will have tools to help them manage programmers and teams successfully. Like their successful book, this video provides a broad number of topics that the viewer can return to time and time again when confronted with problems, issues, or crises,...
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