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Summary: Excellent book. Leave it on your boss' desk.
Review: A bible for software development. A must read for all managers.
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Summary: Professional Project Management
Review: Although the focus is specific to software development, this book is a good primer for Project Leaders, Team Members and Managers on overall results oriented performance. Key points covered:· Focus on project goals and priorities · Simple process changes yield big results · Attack the right problem · Features must be strategic for the product · Look ahead, don't let foreseeable problems surprise you · Effective meetings end with decisions and minimize disruptions to work · Post-mortems are effective if they answer how to fix problems · Schedules are best if milestone driven, giving the team a sense of "wins" · Grow your people, focus on immediate opportunities for feedback, avoid end of season coaching · The product is everything that's in the box · Leverage · Productivity I liked the real-world examples, and the varied experiences cited from within the walls of a respected development organization.
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Summary: Professional Project Management
Review: Although the focus is specific to software development, this book is a good primer for Project Leaders, Team Members and Managers on overall results oriented performance. Key points covered: · Focus on project goals and priorities · Simple process changes yield big results · Attack the right problem · Features must be strategic for the product · Look ahead, don't let foreseeable problems surprise you · Effective meetings end with decisions and minimize disruptions to work · Post-mortems are effective if they answer how to fix problems · Schedules are best if milestone driven, giving the team a sense of "wins" · Grow your people, focus on immediate opportunities for feedback, avoid end of season coaching · The product is everything that's in the box · Leverage · Productivity I liked the real-world examples, and the varied experiences cited from within the walls of a respected development organization.
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Summary: Excellent no-nonsense approach to leading a development team
Review: Highly recommended reading for anyone whose profession is software development. Steve's no nonsense approach is extremely easy to read and follow. His recommendations for leading software development teams are dead on. This book should be a MUST READ for ALL software development team leaders and managers
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Summary: Covers topics not found in most texts
Review: I am a software engineer with 20 years of experience and found this text to be informative and useful. Mr. Maguire's style is easily read and his observations are backed by numerous examples. The text is limited, however, by Mr. Maguires lack of experience in other types of software projects that don't have double digit headcounts. Overall I found the book to be a good addition to my library.
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Summary: A find for a "coder" placed in the yoke of project managemnt
Review: I loved this book and bought several copies for my senior management! It really helped this "newbie" supervisor to get started on the right foot! I'd recommend it to anyone who involved in software development. It's a book you'll want to keep within reach on your shelf at work.
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Summary: An excellent guide for development managers seeking guidance
Review: I recommend this book to anyone managing (or thinking of managing) a development team. It contains practical advice, good examples, and a real world feel for how developers work (and can improve their work) and how managers can "stay out of their way" so that they can get their work done. This is one of the only Microsoft Press books that I read from cover to cover. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Great stuff -- and not just for tech types
Review: Maguire has done a great job in terms of tackling tough problems and making them easy to understand. This book should be read by senior management in any organization that does development.
It sits on my shelf next to "Mythical Man Month" and McConnell's "Rapid Development", but it doesn't stay there for long. I've given away a few copies of it, and keep referring back to mine.
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Summary: An enjoyable, practical, general guide.
Review: Maguire has written an engaging book, full of practical principles for keeping teams motivated and on task. These principles apply to _any_ product development process, however. I read this book while I managed a team of technical writers. I applied most of Maguire's ideas to the team's process to good success. I think that if I had been managing a team of programmers, however, I would have hoped for more information specific to that discipline.
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Summary: An enjoyable, practical, general guide.
Review: Maguire has written an engaging book, full of practical principles for keeping teams motivated and on task. These principles apply to _any_ product development process, however. I read this book while I managed a team of technical writers. I applied most of Maguire's ideas to the team's process to good success. I think that if I had been managing a team of programmers, however, I would have hoped for more information specific to that discipline.
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