Antipatterns : managing software organizations and people /: managing software organizations and people. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Colin J. Neill, Phillip A. Laplante, Joanna F. DeFranco.
• Other Names: Neill, Colin J; Laplante, Phillip A; DeFranco, Joanna F
• Contents: Patterns and Antipatterns; A Timeless Way of Building; Pattern Structure; Antipatterns; Many Eyes; Antipattern Structure; Management and Environmental Antipatterns; Consistency and Completeness; References Human Patterns and Antipatterns; Human Patterns; Human Antipatterns and Negative Personality Types; Chapter Exercises; References Group Patterns and Antipatterns; Team Theories; Tuckman’s Theory of Teams; Overcoming Team Dysfunction; Sports Analogies to Teams; Evolution to Antipatterns; Chapter Exercises; References; ; Successfully Leading Teams; The Growth of Team Size; Micromanagers and Laissez-Faire Managers; Theory X; Theory Y; Theory Z; Leadership Theories; General Advice; Chapter Exercises; References Management Antipatterns; Absentee Manager; All You Have Is a Hammer; Cage Match Negotiator; Doppelgänger; Fruitless Hoops; Golden Child; Headless Chicken; Leader Not Manager; Manager Not Leader; Managerial Cloning; Metric Abuse; Mr. Nice Guy; Mushroom Management; Planning with Gantt Regard; Proletariat Hero; Rising Upstart; Road to Nowhere; Spineless Executive; Three-Headed Knight; Ultimate Weapon; Warm Bodies; Chapter Exercises; References Environmental Antipatterns; Ant Colony; Atlas Shrug; Autonomous Collective; Boiling Frog Syndrome; Burning Bag of Dung; Buzzword Mania; Divergent Goals; Dogmatic about Dysfunction; Dunkirk Spirit; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Fairness Doctrine; Fools Rush In; Founderitis; French Waiter Syndrome; Frienemies By Design; Geek Hazing; Institutional Mistrust; Kiosk City; Mediocracy; One-Eyed King; Orange Stand Economics; Pitcairn Island; Potemkin Village; Process Clash; Rubik’s Cube; Shoeless Children; Work Breakdown Architectures; Worshipping the Golden Calf; Reference General Advice in Dealing with Antipatterns; Be Kind; Do Not Blame Other People; Learn to Deliver Bad News; Do Not Worry for Other People; Do Not Shoot the Messenger; Let People Learn from Their Mistakes; Just Get It Done; Remember the Law of Unintended Consequences; Listen; Negotiate; Never Give Up; Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain; Remember that Luck Can Play a Role; Remember that No Good Deed Goes Unpunished; Remember that People Despise in Others What They Hate in Themselves; Use Golden Rule Management; Never Mess with Space, Title, or Salary; Be a Mentor; Always Set and Meet Expectations; Remember that You Take the Same Person with You Wherever You Go; References Appendix; Work Breakdown Structure; WBS Construction; WBS Rules; Estimation; Cone of Uncertainty; COCOMO II; COSYSMO; Scheduling; Critical Path Method; Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM); Note References Index
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Auerbach Publications
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 005.1068; Computer software -- Development -- Management; Antipatterns (Software engineering); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management; COMPUTERS / Information Technology; COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466516564; 1466516569
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