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

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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp
from Apress

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The title should be Managing Software Engineering Humans!
  Living in a Software Engineering world, this book nailed it. Not everyone gets "1.0 Start-Up Tragedies". Perhaps it's something akin to Katrina. (You had to be there.) Beyond that he does a little physco-analysis of personality work approaches: incrementalist and completionists, manager (north and south) poles of organics and mechanics. It's not only funny and true-to-life, but upbeat. It might be a nice stocking stuffer for that new engineer in the family.

• Angry
  While this book has some very good insights about management that are right on, the relentless use of angry and derogatory terms to describe everyone from managers to subordinates leaves me exasperated and cold. While humans, or should I say people, have their issues, I prefer to see the inherent value, humor, fun and value that each person has. These good qualities that human beings have are what make management an interesting and enjoyable job.
  I've yet to find a management book this is not either... more info

• wasted my time and money
  this is the first review i write, and yes it is because i was really upset at myself for getting this book. it is a random collection of paragraph. no "biting tale", no insight, only a failed attempt to "wow" people with boring stories. nothing to be learned, except that without ideas or writing skills one can still make money out of a book

• Insightful and Enjoyable
  
  While I learned a great deal from this book, as importantly, I enjoyed the read immensely. Michael knows very well that people learn through stories. This book is a collection of stories with analysis interspersed. I highly recommend this book for IT Managers looking to improve their leadership skills or IT engineers trying to figure out what makes their manager tick.

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