Building Great Software Engineering Teams: Recruiting, Hiring, and Managing Your

Description: Building Great Software Engineering Teams by Joshua Tyler WINNER of Computing Reviews 20th Annual Best Review in the category Management "Tylers book is concise, reasonable, and full of interesting practices, including some curious ones you might consider adopting yourself if you become a software engineering manager." —Fernando Berzal, CR, 10/23/2015 "Josh Tyler crafts a concise, no-nonsense, intensely focused guide for building the workhouse of Silicon Valley—the high-functioning software team." —Gordon Rios, Summer Book Recommendations from the Smartest People We Know—Summer 2016Building Great Software Engineering Teams provides engineering leaders, startup founders, and CTOs concrete, industry-proven guidance and techniques for recruiting, hiring, and managing software engineers in a fast-paced, competitive environment.With so much at stake, the challenge of scaling up a team can be intimidating. Engineering leaders in growing companies of all sizes need to know how to find great candidates, create effective interviewing and hiring processes, bring out the best in people and their work, provide meaningful career development, learn to spot warning signs in their team, and manage their people for long-term success.Author Josh Tyler has spent nearly a decade building teams in high-growth startups, experimenting with every aspect of the task to see what works best. He draws on this experience to outline specific, detailed solutions augmented by instructive stories from his own experience. In this book youll learn how to build your team, starting with your first hire and continuing through the stages of development as you manage your team for growth and success. Organized to cover each step of the process in the order youll likely face them, and highlighted by stories of success and failure, it provides an easy-to-understand recipe for creating your high-powered engineering team. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Josh Tyler is VP of Engineering and Design at Course Hero, an education technology company. He was previously Director of Software Engineering at Suitable Technologies and worked in the field of human-computer interaction as a UX architect, software developer, and researcher at Willow Garage, Zvents, Hewlett Packard, and Xerox PARC. Tyler holds a BS in Computer Science from Washington University and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University Table of Contents Chapter 1 The Challenge of Building an Engineering Team from the Ground Up.- Chapter 2 An Enlightened Approach to Recruiting.-Chapter 3 Six Destructive Myths about Recruiting Software Engineers.-Chapter 4 Eight Steps to Recruiting Success.-Chapter 5 Hiring Is Hard.-Chapter 6 The Myth of the Ninja Rockstar Developer.-Chapter 7 The Hiring Decision Checklist.-Chapter 8 Making Interviews Fun for Your Team.-Chapter 9 Why We Dont Allow Java in Job Interviews.-Chapter 10 Do I Want to be a Manager?.-Chapter 11 A Managers Most Important Deliverable.-Chapter 12 Technical vs Management Tracks: Helping Your People Grow.-Chapter 13 Tricks of the Trade for Engineering Managers.-Chapter 14 Advice to Give Engineers on Finding a Great Job and Growing in Their Careers. Feature Building Software from the Ground Up provides engineering leaders, startup founders, and CTOs: Effective techniques for finding and hiring the best engineering candidate The skills to manage engineers for optimum morale, performance, and career development Insights into the challenges youll face as you build a team, Solutions to challenges richly illustrated from the authors deep and varied experience as an engineering leader Details ISBN1484211340 Author Joshua Tyler Short Title BUILDING GRT SOFTWARE ENGINEER Language English ISBN-10 1484211340 ISBN-13 9781484211342 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-06-29 Imprint APress Subtitle Recruiting, Hiring, and Managing Your Team from Startup to Success Pages 168 Edition 1st Place of Publication Berkley Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1007/978-1-4842-1133-5 UK Release Date 2015-06-29 AU Release Date 2015-06-29 NZ Release Date 2015-06-29 US Release Date 2015-06-29 Illustrations 6 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 168 p. 6 illus. Publisher APress Edition Description 1st ed. DEWEY 005.10683 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96302866;

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