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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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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

A Week in the Life of a Manager

Every professional, throughout their career, will encounter both learning and development needs. These needs are typically fulfilled by a combination of on-the-job learning and formal training. Yet, as you begin, and even while you continue your journey as a manager, you will undoubtedly encounter situations where you will need to learn in order to grow and operate effectively.

It's important for you to think of this need to keep learning in certain situations, not as a weakness, or as a sign that you lack skills, but as a positive thing, because it is simply a fact of modern professional life for everyone.

The technologies that we use in our daily lives today are advancing and evolving faster than they have ever done before. This has a profound effect on the software business itself and everything it touches, including the people, both developers...

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