Managing Humans

Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Recommended by Dave Child, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #82 in Project Management, Ranked #82 in Managementsee more rankings.

Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's web site, Rands in Repose. Drawing on Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual... more

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Dave Child Perhaps Managing Humans by Michael Lopp would be the most practical - it's a great read, and for people making the leap from developer to manager, it's full of useful advice. (Source)


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