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aPress Building Great Software Engineering Teams by Joshua Tyler
WINNER of Computing Reviews 20th Annual Best Review in the category Management Tylers book is concise reasonable and full of interesting practices including some curious ones you might consider adopting yourself if you become a software engineering manager. Fernando Berzal CR 10/23/2015 Josh Tyler crafts a concise nononsense intensely focused guide for building the workhouse of Silicon Valleythe highfunctioning software team. Gordon Rios Summer Book Recommendations from the Smartest People We KnowSummer 2016Building Great Software Engineering Teams provides engineering leaders startup founders and CTOs concrete industryproven guidance and techniques for recruiting hiring and managing software engineers in a fastpaced competitive environment.With so much at stake the challenge of scaling up a team can be intimidating. Engineering leaders in growing companies of all sizes need to know how to find great candidates create effective interviewing and hiring processes bring out the best in people and their work provide meaningful career development learn to spot warning signs in their team and manage their people for longterm success.Author Josh Tyler has spent nearly a decade building teams in highgrowth startups experimenting with every aspect of the task to see what works best. He draws on this experience to outline specific detailed solutions augmented by instructive stories from his own experience. In this book youll learn how to build your team starting with your first hire and continuing through the stages of development as you manage your team for growth and success. Organized to cover each step of the process in the order youll likely face them and highlighted by stories of success and failure it provides an easytounderstand recipe for creating your highpowered engineering team.show more