August 2012
Beginner
228 pages
5h 45m
English
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Part Two. The Shipping Greatness Skills
YOU ARE PROBABLY ALREADY pretty good at shipping software. But I’ll wager you can be better. You can always be more efficient, for example. You could probably communicate more clearly. You could be less stressed out. You could have a bigger engineering team, more leverage with your senior management, or a better understanding of systems design. Or maybe none of these things applies to you and you can skip Part Two entirely and send me your résumé.
If you are like most of us, you struggled to build one or more of these skills as you tried to ship software. Shipping software is unlike most other kinds of jobs because it requires precision technical communication, deep knowledge across a host of disciplines, and fortitude. The skills I emphasize in these chapters are tried-and-true methods for increasing your effectiveness and happiness—which in turn will help you ship.
Because you can’t ship without a team, Chapter 8 covers how to hire or build a team, how to acquire a business when that is an option, how to work with offshore resources when you can’t build a team locally, and how to join a team when there’s one in place.
Chapter 9 describes what you need to know to be sufficiently technical so that you can work effectively with the engineers you hired in Chapter 8. This chapter is not a computer science course; rather, it’s a fast-paced overview of the kinds of systems-oriented knowledge you need to be able to understand in order to guide your ...
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