Product Description: This book gives you a series of just plain good ideas that you can use starting today. You'll find tips on how to get to know the people who work for you while still respecting and protecting their privacy. You'll see how to be an effective coach and how to match people to their work to get better results...read more

Product Description: Joined by coeditors Marie Benesh and James Bullock, consultant’s consultant Gerald M. Weinberg highlights forty experts’ secrets for building and sustaining a leadership role in software development. Participants of the SHAPE forum, many of them software consultants and managers at the world’s most successful software companies, logged in to help each other identify the "stupid tricks" that developers are tempted to employ in design, code, and documentation—tricks that seem clever in the short term but have damaging long-term effects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hunting for lessons on software project management, consultants James Bullock, Gerald M. Weinberg, and Marie Benesh selected forty experts’ most potent contributions to SHAPE, Weinberg’s Web-based, subscription-only discussion forum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)