Shipping Greatness

Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon

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Paperback, 216 blz. | Engels
O'Reilly | 1e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781449336578
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Hoofdrubriek : Computer en informatica
Juridisch : Management
O'Reilly 1e druk, 2012 9781449336578
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Need a shortcut to a degree in shipping great software? Successful team leaders must have an extremely broad skill set to find the right product, work through a complex and ever-changing development process, and do it all incredibly quickly. In this guide, Chris Vander Mey provides a simplified, no-BS approach to the entire software lifecycle, distilled from lessons he learned as a manager at Amazon and Google.

In the first part of the book, you'll learn a step-by-step shipping process used by many of the best teams at Google and Amazon. Part II shows you the techniques, best practices, and skills you need to face an array of challenges in product, program, project, and engineering management.

- Clearly define your product and develop your mission and strategy
- Assemble your team and understand enough about systems to communicate with them
- Create a beautiful, intuitive, and simple user experience
- Track your team's deliverables and closely manage the testing process
- Communicate clearly to gracefully handle requests, senior-management interactions, and feedback from various sources
- Build metrics to track progress, spot problems, and celebrate success
- Stick to your launch checklist and plan for marketing and PR

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ISBN13:9781449336578
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:216
Uitgever:O'Reilly
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:25-9-2012
Hoofdrubriek:Management

Over Chris Vander Mey

Chris Vander Mey is a former Senior Product Manager at Google and Engineering Manager (a.k.a. "Two Pizza Team Lead") at Amazon. He has shipped software that hundreds of millions of people use. At Google he shipped Google Apps Marketplace, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, Google+ Hangouts. At Amazon he shipped multiple versions of customer reputation systems and the Real Names product. He has led teams to develop software in many consumer and enterprise areas, including Google Maps, iOS & Android, and highly scalable data storage systems. He holds numerous system patents and a Master of Engineering Management degree from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He is currently the CEO of Scaled Recognition, Inc.

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Preface

Part 1: The Shipping Greatness Process
1. How to Build a Great Mission and Strategy
2. How to Define a Great Product
3. How to Build a Great User Experience
4. How to Achieve Project Management Greatness on a Budget
5. How to Do a Great Job Testing
6. How to Measure Greatness
7. How to Have a Great Launch

Part 2: The Shipping Greatness Skills
8. How to Build a Shipping-Ready Team
9. How to Build Great, Shippable Technology
10. How to Be a Great Shipping Communicator
11. How to Make Great Decisions
12. How to Stay a Great Person While Shipping
13. That Was Great; Let's Do It Again

Appendix A: 10 Principles of Shipping
Appendix B: Essential Artifacts Your Team Needs
Appendix C: References and Further Reading

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