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Team Geek
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Team Geek

by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
194 pages
5h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Praise for Team Geek

“This delicious book speaks to your inner geek! Even if you do not consider yourself a geek, the advice is worth the time to read anyway.”

Vint Cerf

“I’ve been working with engineers for over 30 years, and in that time I’ve learned that engineering is as much about people as it is science and technology, but most engineers put little or no effort into understanding how to work with others. If you want to be more effective and efficient at creating and innovating, then this book is for you.”

Dean Kamen

“Ben and Fitz have assembled an amazing collection of patterns and anti-patterns for software development teams to consider. This book is for anyone struggling with understanding how to make such a team more productive—for the code wranglers themselves, for their managers, and for everyone in orbit around them. It puts down on paper many of the things innate to great open source developers. I wish I’d had this book years ago.”

Brian Behlendorf

“Software Development is a team sport. If you want to become a top performer in the sport, there are hundreds of good books that tell you how to work on your individual skills as a software developer, and a few on how to be a good manager. This book breaks new ground by setting out all the key lessons for you as a software developer to learn how to work with your teammates, and how to be a good teammate. The field has needed a book like this for a long time, and finally it has arrived.”

Peter Norvig

“If you’re trying to build ...

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