


This edition adds extensive new Agile coverage, new approaches to recruitment and onboarding, expanded coverage of handling problem employees, and much more. Mantle and Ron Lichty show how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.ĭrawing on over 80 years of combined industry experience, the authors share Rules of Thumb, Nuggets of Wisdom, checklists, and other Tools for successfully leading programmers and teams, whether they’re co-located or dispersed worldwide. In their extensively updated Managing the Unmanageable, Second Edition, Mickey W. Some organizations conclude that software development can’t be managed well.

Today, many software projects continue to run catastrophically over schedule and budget, and still don’t deliver what customers want. A mentor who I not only trusted, but one who trusted me to take the wisdom, understand its limits, and apply it correctly.” “Reading this book’s nuggets felt like the sort of guidance that I would get from a trusted mentor. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice form a great blueprint for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.” “Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better Software- Now Extensively Updated
