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An elegant puzzle : systems of engineering management / Will Larson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 285 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781732265189
  • 1732265186
Other title:
  • Systems of engineering management
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 620.0068 23
  • 658.4/00862 23
LOC classification:
  • TA190 .L37 2019
Incomplete contents:
Introduction -- Organizations: Sizing teams ; Staying on the path to high-performing teams ; A case against top-down global optimization ; Productivity in the age of hypergrowth ; Where to stash your organizational risk? ; Succession planning -- Tools: Introduction to systems thinking ; Product management: exploration, selection, validation ; Visions and strategy ; Metrics and baselines ; Guiding broad organizational change with metrics ; Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt ; Running an engineering reorg ; Identify your controls ; Career narratives ; The briefest of media trainings ; Model, document, and share ; Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups ; Presenting to senior leadership ; Time management ; Communities of learning -- Approaches -- Culture -- Careers -- Appendix.
Summary: "Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management--from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning--and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Will Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management that leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes can apply. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in."--Amazon.com.
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LB2822 75.W35 2010 Assessment clear and simple : LB2823.S9 1996 Questionnaire survey research : RA790.A1 N432 Vol 177 New directions for student leadership. TA190.L37 2019 An elegant puzzle :

"An Elegant Puzzle draws from the writing in his blog, Irrational Exuberance!"--Bio.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Organizations: Sizing teams ; Staying on the path to high-performing teams ; A case against top-down global optimization ; Productivity in the age of hypergrowth ; Where to stash your organizational risk? ; Succession planning -- Tools: Introduction to systems thinking ; Product management: exploration, selection, validation ; Visions and strategy ; Metrics and baselines ; Guiding broad organizational change with metrics ; Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt ; Running an engineering reorg ; Identify your controls ; Career narratives ; The briefest of media trainings ; Model, document, and share ; Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups ; Presenting to senior leadership ; Time management ; Communities of learning -- Approaches -- Culture -- Careers -- Appendix.

"Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management--from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning--and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Will Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management that leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes can apply. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in."--Amazon.com.

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