Overview
How do you hire-and keep-the best software engineers in the business? What real-world practices can really motivate a team to produce excellent results? From startups to major corporations, virtually every commercial software company struggles with building teams and shipping great software on time. Now industry expert Ed Sullivan shares the hard-won lessons and best practices from his 17-year career in software development, including six years at award-winning NuMega Technologies.In Under Pressure and on Time, Sullivan describes a proven model for creating, directing, and growing a world-class development team. Discussion includes recruiting, interviewing, company culture, scheduling, release engineering, tools, key processes, beta management, project status, project closure, and other critical topics for which-until now-frustratingly little information has been published.
But Under Pressure and on Time digs one level deeper than other project management books, delivering the fire-tested practices and essential how-to's that help you lead software teams to greatness.
Editorials
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The Barnes & Noble ReviewFor all the talk of "manufacturing" software through "standard components," the fact remains: Great software is built by talented people working together well.
Leading great software teams is an art and a science, and in a brutally competitive marketplace, it just doesn't get easier. If there's any consolation, you're not alone. Perhaps it's more of a consolation to know there's actually some help available: Under Pressure & On Time by Ed Sullivan.
Sullivan's been in the trenches for nearly two decades. These days, he leads NuMega Labs' development center (they've shipped more than 30 products, 90 percent of them on time). His book thoroughly demystifies every phase of software leadership: creating your team, directing it, and delivering the results that keep it thriving.
You'll find coverage of recruiting and interviewing to get the right people -- and retaining them. (It's about more than providing munchies and air hockey tables.) There's also specific, expert guidance on the vital day-to-day stuff nobody ever writes about: scheduling, betas, release engineering, and so forth.
Most software team leaders and IT managers "rose from the ranks" of developers. Nobody taught them how to lead. Ed Sullivan will. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant and writer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.