Managing Software People and Teams LiveLessons

Managing Software People & Teams LiveLessons was based on the Addison-Wesley text Managing Unmanageable: Rules Tools and Insights to Manage Software People and Teams. This book provides software leaders at all levels with tools, rules, and insights that will help them manage their programmers and teams. This guide will help you to hire, motivate, mentor, and manage a software development team that functions at its highest level. It is also useful for directors and VPs Engineering, as well VPs and CEOs who rely upon software people and teams to ensure their company's success. There are many stories about projects that ran over budget and on time. Based on their book Managing Software People and Teams LiveLessons and Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty answer this persistent question with a simple observation. To make programmers and software teams more manageable, you first need to make them manageable. You must first understand your people, how to motivate them, and how to make great products. Mantle and Lichty combine their 75+ years of combined software development and management experience and highlight the wisdom and insights of other successful managers to provide the guidance you need in managing people and teams to deliver software.
This video training will explain why managing programmers is so difficult. Ron and Mickey then give tips and tools to help you hire and manage new programmers successfully, motivate and manage your peers, manage bosses, manage bosses, manage yourself, create a successful programming culture and deliver results. Then they answer a question that is increasingly important to answer: "If Agile is the case, why do we need a manger?"
Programming managers and other software leaders in any organization will be able to understand why managing programmers can seem so difficult and overwhelming. They will also have the tools they need to manage their programmers and teams. This video is similar to their book. It covers a wide range of topics that viewers can refer to when faced with problems, issues or crises. The video, like their book, provides a wealth of rules and wisdom from many sources to help viewers manage well. The video provides access to tools Mickey & Ron have used in managing their own businesses, just like their book. This video course will help you to appreciate real-world knowledge as well as the practical tools.