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Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, 2nd Edition
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Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, 2nd Edition

by Mickey W. Mantle, Ron Lichty
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 30m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, 2nd Edition

6. Becoming an Effective Programming Manager: Managing Up, Out, and Yourself

The Previous Chapter Discussed the First and Most Important Part of your job—managing down. This chapter addresses those other parts of your job that you must also do to be a truly effective programming manager:

  • Managing up

  • Managing out

  • Managing yourself

These topics deal with managing your boss(es), managing your peers and others inside or outside of your organization, and managing yourself. Your boss and colleagues are not your direct reports; they have their own agendas that may conflict with yours, they may not respect you or even know who you are, and they cannot be managed in the same way you manage your team. Managing out also provides special opportunities ...

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