An elegant puzzle :
Larson, William, (Engineer),
An elegant puzzle : systems of engineering management / Systems of engineering management Will Larson. - First edition. - 285 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
"An Elegant Puzzle draws from the writing in his blog, Irrational Exuberance!"--Bio.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Organizations: Sizing teams ; Staying on the path to high-performing teams ; A case against top-down global optimization ; Productivity in the age of hypergrowth ; Where to stash your organizational risk? ; Succession planning -- Tools: Introduction to systems thinking ; Product management: exploration, selection, validation ; Visions and strategy ; Metrics and baselines ; Guiding broad organizational change with metrics ; Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt ; Running an engineering reorg ; Identify your controls ; Career narratives ; The briefest of media trainings ; Model, document, and share ; Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups ; Presenting to senior leadership ; Time management ; Communities of learning -- Approaches -- Culture -- Careers -- Appendix.
"Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management--from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning--and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Will Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management that leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes can apply. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in."--Amazon.com.
9781732265189 1732265186
Engineering--Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Industrial management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Project management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Business ethics.
Business ethics.
Engineering--Management.
Industrial management.
Project management.
Handbooks and manuals.
Handbooks and manuals.
TA190 / .L37 2019
620.0068 658.4/00862
An elegant puzzle : systems of engineering management / Systems of engineering management Will Larson. - First edition. - 285 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
"An Elegant Puzzle draws from the writing in his blog, Irrational Exuberance!"--Bio.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Organizations: Sizing teams ; Staying on the path to high-performing teams ; A case against top-down global optimization ; Productivity in the age of hypergrowth ; Where to stash your organizational risk? ; Succession planning -- Tools: Introduction to systems thinking ; Product management: exploration, selection, validation ; Visions and strategy ; Metrics and baselines ; Guiding broad organizational change with metrics ; Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt ; Running an engineering reorg ; Identify your controls ; Career narratives ; The briefest of media trainings ; Model, document, and share ; Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups ; Presenting to senior leadership ; Time management ; Communities of learning -- Approaches -- Culture -- Careers -- Appendix.
"Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management--from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning--and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Will Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management that leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes can apply. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in."--Amazon.com.
9781732265189 1732265186
Engineering--Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Industrial management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Project management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Business ethics.
Business ethics.
Engineering--Management.
Industrial management.
Project management.
Handbooks and manuals.
Handbooks and manuals.
TA190 / .L37 2019
620.0068 658.4/00862