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The Successful Software Manager

You're reading from   The Successful Software Manager The definitive guide to growing from developer to manager

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789615531
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Herman Fung Herman Fung
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Why Do You Want to Become a Manager? FREE CHAPTER 2. What Are the Key Skills I Need? 3. What Is My Job Now? 4. A Week in the Life of a Manager 5. Managing Your Team 6. Asking the Right Questions to Your Users 7. Meetings 8. Design Techniques 9. Validating the Solution 10. Agile, Waterfall, and Everything in Between 11. Always Be Shipping 12. The Training Day 13. Organizational Management in the 21st Century 14. Developing Yourself as a Leader 15. Your Next Steps 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

The 70/20/10 blended learning model

Before we look at the average week of a manager, I want to place our focus on some different training models that you can implement during on-the-job learning or within more formal training. Whatever model you choose, you'll need to give yourself and any relevant team members enough time to implement it.

To put this into the wider context of your overall work, the most widely understood and followed approach to training is the 70/20/10 blended learning model. Before we break down what that means, Catalent has this great graphic, in Figure 4.1, which helps to visualize the model itself:

Figure 4.1: 70% experience, 20% exposure, and 10% education
Source: http://www.catalent.com/index.php/about-us/Catalent-Careers2/Overview/Learning-Development

What are the three arcs of the 70/20/10 learning model here? Well, if you are working on this training...

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