All posts tagged “Management

Summary: Managing Humans

One of the professional development training items on the books for FY18-19 at work was the book Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp. This post gives a quick overview of what I learned,…

Summary: The Ideal Team Player

One of the professional development training items on the books for FY18-19 at work was the book The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencioni. This post gives a quick overview of…

Control, Competence, and Clarity

TL;DR — As a leader, be aware of the levels of control, competence, and clarity for your teams so that you can help them be effective. Understand that each variable is on a spectrum, and your team will feel differently…

Peopleware

I recently finished reading Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd ed.). The book is a collection of essays about people-related issues that apply to software development (aimed more so toward managers). The authors, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, are software consultants that…

Casting Error

For the past few years, I’ve been a team lead for my company. I think of it as “management lite,” where I don’t have all the responsibility, but I get to figure out how to manage tasks and the people…