Managing Humans : Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

PART I The Management Quiver -- Chapter 1 Don't Be a Prick -- Chapter 2 Managers Are Not Evil -- Chapter 3 Stables and Volatiles -- Chapter 4 The Rands Test -- Chapter 5 How to Run a Meeting -- Chapter 6 The Twinge -- Chapter 7 The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster -- Chapter 8 The Monday Freakout -- Chapter 9 Lost in Translation -- Chapter 10 Agenda Detection -- Chapter 11 Dissecting the Mandate -- Chapter 12 Information Starvation -- Chapter 13 Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence -- Chapter 14 Managementese -- Chapter 15 You’re Not Listening -- Chapter 16 Fred Hates the Off-Site -- Chapter 17 A Different Kind of DNA -- Chapter 18 An Engineering Mindset -- Chapter 19 Tear It Down -- Chapter 20 Titles are Toxic -- Chapter 21 Saying No -- PART II The Process is the Product -- Chapter 22 1.0 -- Chapter 23 The Process Myth -- Chapter 24 How to Start -- Chapter 25 Taking Time to Think -- Chapter 26 The Value of the Soak -- Chapter 27 Capturing Context -- Chapter 28 Trickle Theory -- Chapter 29 When the Sky Falls -- Chapter 30 Hacking Is Important -- Chapter 31 Entropy Crushers -- PART III Versions of You -- Chapter 32 Bored People Quit -- Chapter 33 Bellwethers -- Chapter 34 The Ninety-Day Interview -- Chapter 35 Managing Nerds -- Chapter 36 NADD -- Chapter 37 A Nerd in a Cave -- Chapter 38 Meeting Creatures -- Chapter 39 Incrementalists and Completionists -- Chapter 40 Organics and Mechanics -- Chapter 41 Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics -- Chapter 42 The Wolf -- Chapter 43 Free Electrons -- Chapter 44 The Old Guard -- Chapter 45 Rules for the Reorg -- Chapter 46 An Unexpected Connection -- Chapter 47 Avoiding the Fez -- Chapter 48 A Glimpse and a Hook -- Chapter 49 Nailing the Phone Screen -- Chapter 50 Your Resignation Checklist -- Chapter 51 Shields Down -- Chapter 52 Chaotic Beautiful Snowflakes -- Glossary.