Managing Software Maniacs covers the essentials of building, managing, and motivating team. More importantly for the first-time manager, the following topics are covered: basics of accounting, budgeting, and armortizing development costs; how to participate meaningfully in strategic planning; and what it takes to be a leader.

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Managing Software Maniacs
Finding, Managing, and Rewarding a Winning Development Team

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-10: 0471009970 ISBN-13: 978-0471009979
Date published: 1994
Pages: 232

Managing Software Maniacs is a light, sometimes humorous guide to managing software development teams. It assumes that readers are either already development team managers or on the way to becoming them. Author Ken Whitaker begins by explaining his ideal order of the team leader's priorities and how to get them straight. Once everyone's goals are in line, Whitaker proposes methods for recruiting the best additions to your team, sharpening your own skills as a leader, establishing good scheduling practices, and coping with unforeseen forces, such as intraoffice dynamics and the "dreaded" marketing department (who, by the way, should be your best friend).

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