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The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better Software―Now Extensively Updated
“Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice form a great blueprint for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.”
―Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora

“Reading this book’s nuggets felt like the sort of guidance that I would get from a trusted mentor. A mentor who I not only trusted, but one who trusted me to take the wisdom, understand its limits, and apply it correctly.”
―Mike Fauzy, CTO, FauzyLogic
Today, many software projects continue to run catastrophically over schedule and budget, and still don’t deliver what customers want. Some organizations conclude that software development can’t be managed well. But it can―and it starts with people. In their extensively updated Managing the Unmanageable, Second Edition, Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty show how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.
Drawing on over 80 years of combined industry experience, the authors share Rules of Thumb, Nuggets of Wisdom, checklists, and other Tools for successfully leading programmers and teams, whether they’re co-located or dispersed worldwide. This edition adds extensive new Agile coverage, new approaches to recruitment and onboarding, expanded coverage of handling problem employees, and much more. Whether you’re new to software management or you’ve done it for years, you’ll find indispensable advice for handling your challenges and delivering outstanding software.

Find, recruit, and hire the right programmers, when you need them
Manage programmers as the individuals they are
Motivate software people and teams to accomplish truly great feats
Create a successful development subculture that can thrive even in a toxic company culture
Master the arts of managing down and managing up
Embrace your role as a manager who empowers self-directed agile teams to thrive and succeed

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From the Publisher

Why Another Book on Software Development (and How This One is Different)

Early in our careers as programmers, we both read Fred Brooks’s 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. An instant classic among programmers, it is full of wisdom still relevant today and is widely regarded as a definitive work in the art of software management.

Like many others who read it, we found the most memorable parts to be Brooks’s one-line nuggets of wisdom, such as “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” We can’t recall the number of times we’ve used this quote when managing software projects. The desire to find other such memorable rules of thumb was the inspiration and driving force behind the writing of this book.

We wanted to write a book that could be a mentor of sorts for programming managers—a book filled with insights, stories, and guidance gained from years of learning the hard way how to do it successfully…

Yet we found scant more examples focused on managing programmers and software development teams than we had when we began our careers.

Among the books we did find, none contained the kinds of behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes we have incorporated into this book—stories and anecdotes that speak directly to how to handle specific situations that managers face.

Programmers and software teams need not be unmanageable, but it takes talented managers who are dedicated to doing the hard work of managing seemingly unmanageable personalities to succeed.

We can certainly affirm that writing this—and the rules, tools, and conversations we shared as we transformed our thinking into words—made both of us better managers, made our jobs easier, made our teams happier, and made our projects more successful. We hope the rules, tools, and insights we have provided in this book will make your jobs easier, as well.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (December 10, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0135667364
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0135667361
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.23 x 9.13 inches

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