Shipping Greatness: Practical Lessons on Building and Releasing Great Software

Título: Shipping Greatness: Practical Lessons on Building and Releasing Great Software

Autor: Chris Vander Mey

Sinopse: Product Description Shipping Greatness: Practical Lessons on Building and Releasing Great Software is the new manual for building and releasing great software. Drawing on his experience as a senior product manager at Google and an engineering manager at Amazon building software that hundreds of millions of people use, Chris Vander Mey lays out the whole sequence of steps by which a team leader navigates or “ships” a new software product from concept through creation to launch. In a pithy and witty exposition laced with insider anecdotes, frontline survival tips, and irreverent asides, Vander Mey reveals the sets of best practices by which Google and Amazon have attained greatness by shipping greatness.   Building and launching great software depends on two complementary qualities in the team leader: understanding exactly what constitutes a great shipping process and having the skills to execute that process on schedule in a complex organization. Shipping Greatness details the following steps in the process: identifying the right product to fill a specific unmet customer need; defining that product and iteratively refining it up the food-chain to the company’s top decision makers; designing the user experience from the inside out; wrangling the engineering team over the coding hump; testing; building metrics; and launch. The skills that a successful team leader must bring to the shipping process are treated in chapters on team building, understanding technology, communicating, and coping with life in the software industry. Shipping Greatness is a unique and powerful guide for professionals in the software industry, providing ·         The step-by-step process by which great companies develop and release great software ·         Proven tips, tricks, and advice from the shippers of some of Google’s and Amazon’s most amazing products What you’ll learn·         How to define a product, manage the project efficiently, and launch successfully. ·         How to work better with design, test, and engineering teams. ·         How to analyze deals, pitch your product, and build a great team. ·         How to communicate effectively with senior software management. ·         How to measure your success, respond to crises, and maintain a better work/life balance as you try to ship your software. Who this book is for Shipping Greatness is for people who play a role in building software. This large and rapidly growing audience includes at its core IT project managers, product managers, program managers, and at its periphery engineering managers, designers, testers, and executives. One of these job categories alone—IT project manager—will have 1.2 million openings in the US each year through 2016 (Anderson Economic Group).  Such readers are highly educated and affluent, with median salaries over $100k (Project Management Institute). The secondary market of IT designers and engineers is an equally educated population of (1.5 million in the US) who are deeply curious about how their colleagues at top-tier companies like Amazon and Google work. Shipping Greatness appeals to general consumer and business readers, too, because many of the insider skills and tricks revealed in this entertaining manuscript can be adapted to any management situation. About the Author Chris Vander Mey is a former senior product manager at Google and software engineering manager at Amazon. He has shipped software that hundreds of millions of people use.  At Google he shipped Google Apps Marketplace, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, and Google+ Hangouts. At Amazon he shipped multiple versions of customer reputation systems and the Real Names product. He has led teams to develop software in many consumer and enterprise areas, including Google Maps, iOS and Android, and highly scalable data storage systems.  He holds numerous system patents and a Master of Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.

Contexto da obra

Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Shipping Greatness: Practical Lessons on Building and Releasing Great Software”, de Chris Vander Mey, publicado pela editora Apress, em 2012 e com 230 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.

Editora: Apress

Páginas: 230

Ano: 2012

Edição: 1

Linguagem: pt_BR

ISBN: 9781430246350

ISBN13: 9781430246350