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WINNER of Computing Reviews 20th Annual Best Review in the category Management
"Tyler's 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 2016
Building 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 you'll 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 you'll 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.
List 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 Don't Allow Java in Job Interviews.-Chapter 10 Do I Want to be a Manager?.-Chapter 11 A Manager's 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.
About the author
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
Summary
WINNER of Computing Reviews 20th Annual Best Review in the category Management “Tyler’s 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 you’ll 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 you’ll 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.
