In Scott Berkun's bestselling book you'll learn from a former Microsoft team leader how to plan, manage and lead projects. This fun and entertaining account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the software industry can help you in your current work, and on future projects to come. Written for software developers and anyone leading teams or projects.
Book features include: 16 chapters on the critical and common challenges of leading projects and managing teams, over 50 clever diagrams and useful figures, entertaining photography, war stories of success and failure, a sense of humor, executive summaries for each chapter, annotated bibliography, extensive footnotes and references.
Topics covered include:
How to make things happen
How to make good decisions
Specifications and requirements
Where ideas come from
How to manage ideas
How not to annoy people
Leadership and trust
Midgame / endgame strategy
The truth about making dates
What to do when things go wrong
Power and politics
Team communication & relationships
Visions and plans
Product Details
Retail Price:$39.95PMB Price: $33.00 ISBN: 978-0596007867 Publication Date: 22-Apr-05 Publisher: O'Reilly Media Author: Scott Berkun Binding: Paperback Language: English Pages: 488
