Software Manager

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager. 

Clean Architecture is an essential book for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager - and for every programmer who must execute someone else’s designs. 

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness. 

Are you a software engineer dreaming of the CTO title? Already a CTO looking to level up? This is the playbook you've been waiting for. THE UNICORN CTO is the most comprehensive guide ever written on technology leadership—packed with 95,000 words of battle-tested wisdom from the trenches of building platforms serving millions of users. 📊 WHAT'S INSIDE: ✓ 35 in-depth chapters covering EVERY aspect of the CTO role ✓ 250+ insider tips you won't find in any other book ✓ 30+ real-world case studies (successes AND failures) ✓ Proven frameworks: STAR-L storytelling, CTO Portfolio ...

Use this book as your guide to becoming a Product Manager and landing your first Product Management role! This book will provide an actionable roadmap for those who aspire to a career in the rewarding world of Product Management. Product Management is an impactful role that encourages creativity, collaboration, deep learning, and autonomy. With dedication and perseverance, you can develop the skills necessary to become an exceptional product manager. In this book you will learn more about what this role entails, about how to hone skills required, and most importantly, how to apply these ...

Unlock the Secrets to Managing Software Development! Building Better Software provides clear, actionable insights to help you lead your teams more effectively, ensuring that the software your team creates is well-designed, robust, and thoroughly tested. Author Martin J. Fenelon breaks down the complexities of software development into simple, actionable steps that project managers can follow, no matter their technical background. Discover how to guide your team confidently through every phase of the project lifecycle, regardless of delivery methodology. Learn how to identify warning signs, ...

Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 days, or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of the Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined.

Welcome to the Third Edition of the Technical Program Manager’s Guide to Success. This guide is designed to take you on a complete journey through the world of Technical Program Management from foundational concepts to advanced strategies, and ultimately, to the evolving future of the role. Whether you are just stepping into a TPM role or looking to refine your expertise, this book provides both knowledge and practical tools that you can apply immediately in your career.Here’s what you can expect along the way: Introduction & Foundations Build a clear understanding of the TPM role and ...

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. 

Scrum is the most widely adopted Agile framework in the world. It is easy to understand and yet, difficult to master. Having trained thousands of professionals across the world and helped them implement Scrum in their organizations, the authors provide practical, succinct, and effective answers to 50 of the most common questions about Scrum. This book is for Scrum practitioners, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Agile Coaches who want to refine their expertise and to take Scrum to the next level. Includes an interview with Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum Sprint Your Way to Scrum will ...

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With ninety-seven short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.

There is a question that haunts every software project, usually asked too late and answered too vaguely: Is this software actually good? Not good in the sense that the team believes in it, or that it passed a handful of tests before shipping — but measurably, verifiably, defensibly good. Good enough to meet a contract. Good enough to trust with a critical process. Good enough to stake your professional reputation on. Most software organisations cannot answer that question with any precision. They rely on intuition, convention, and optimism. They ship, and they hope. Software Metrics is ...

This is a super-short read (takes only 10 minutes to finish) and explains the single most important rule you should follow as CTO and Engineering Manager. Forget technology. Forget investors. Forget shareholders. Forget Scrum. Forget DevOps. There is one - and only one - thing that matters to you as CTO and Engineering Manager.

One day you are a senior engineer solving hard technical problems. The next day someone asks if you have "ever considered management." Maybe your manager left and the team needs someone. Maybe you hit a compensation ceiling and management looks like the only ladder left. However it happens, you are now staring at a decision that will reshape your career — and most of the advice you will get about it is useless. The tech industry has a well-documented habit of promoting its best builders into roles that require an entirely different skill set, then acting surprised when the transition is ...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS Do you have a great app idea but no coding skills? ‘How to Make an App Business’ contains no get-rich-quick talk, but just exactly what you need to go from idea to app business. ‘How to Make an App Business’ guides you all the way from idea to launching your app and making a business out of it. The book covers proven and essential steps to build a killer app, get your app off the ramp with solid marketing, and make a viable business. From this book you will learn how to: Build and test early prototypes before starting programming ...

In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring.

At some point in your career, you'll realize there's more to being a software engineer than dealing with code. With more than forty stand-alone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to move on. You'll learn how to handle baffling circumstances in your job, understand what you want from your career, and discover how to thrive in your workplace.

Your manager just asked why nothing is closed on the board. You shipped auth this sprint - tests, PR, QA walkthrough. But the parent ticket moved to QA, it is off your name, and on the dashboard it looks like you did nothing. That is Agilefall: Agile in name, Waterfall in practice. Your team has sprints, standups, and story points. It also has a QA phase at the end of every sprint, a capital budget that locked scope in October, and a roadmap your team did not write. You are not failing at Scrum. You are playing a different game. Surviving Agilefall is not another book about implementing ...

The New Linux Has Arrived The Linux operating system has reached a major milestone in its evolution.Adoption of image based architecture and containerization, Linux now has an uncanny level of robustness and the ability to run a vast number of applications and tools.You may have heard the term "immutable Linux" used to describe the new style, but the truth is far more nuanced and layered. Here is the deeper story. The Era of Atomic Linux explores how desktop Linux is breaking into anew realm, with freedoms and powers far exceeding the other major operating systems.It is ultra reliable and ...