Providing practical insights on how to best manage technical professionals, this text demonstrates that people are important in building software systems and suggests how to identify, motivate and organize innovative people. The work explains how teams can be used to solve difficult problems and und
Managing Technical People: Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process
โ Scribed by Watts S. Humphrey
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Professional
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 352
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The examples can be kind of wordy and not always widely relevant, but there's a lot of good common sense and eye opening truth here for developers of all kinds (although probably mostly for leads, managers, execs).
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