Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp

My definition of a great manager is someone with whom you can make a connection no matter where you sit in the organization chart.

Gossip, rumors, whatever the creation is, it means that someone, somewhere in your organization is asking for help.

Una forma distinta de ver el chisme en la oficina

Management is chess. When you’re presented with a problem, you sometimes need to sit back and take a look at the board, figure out the consequences of each of move, and, most importantly, pick a move. In my experience, the move and how you pick it does not involve 48 laws, but only three words: subtlety, subterfuge, and silence.

Avoid personality tests

Use the development environment to build the product. This means you must be familiar with your team’s tools, including the build system, version control, and programming language.