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Written for project leaders and managers, Managing Technical People delivers advice on how best to deal with the particulars of leading talented, technically minded people through project cycles. Author Watts Humphrey explains his methods for becoming a better project leader, recognizing and recruiting talented people for the right job, and effectively managing those people through the software product cycle. Most of his points are illustrated with anecdotes, tables, and charts, and there are plenty of the requisite multistep methods for improving specific problems.
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Great management book.......2002-02-22
This is a great book for someone who's looking for cases and practical ideas. It doesn't give any numerical analyses or "magical" formulas. It's a guide for project managers and how to manage different people with different skills and professional perspectives.
Great book on Management!.......2002-02-18
This book is a great book for anyone who currently manages and wants to understand how to get the most out of his team. It has plenty of great suggestions to improve people-development as well as process-development. But more important than the suggestions, this book explains why and how certain courses of action succeed while others fail.
Too often technical people are promoted into management with no training. One cannot learn how to manage by merely performing technical tasks. One can learn by reading books like this one.
If Humphrey was my manager I'd quit.......2001-07-21
Some of what he writes is correct, some of it is malarky. I read the entire book hoping he reveal some valuable information. Nope. Worse, in that his methods destroy morale. He seems to think that being a tyrant is the way to get a project done. Ive seen plenty of tyrants fail. Dont waste your time. Try reading Steve McConnel and Tom Demarco instead. (Peopleware and Rapid development)
Not what I expected from a great man like Humphrey.......2000-03-07
This book was not what I expected. Humphrey uses mostly anecdotal examples to illustrate his many points. Though this helps get his points across, it does not really prove his assertions.
Most of his advice is not practical, or even possible in the employment situations I've seen (and heard about) over the last ten years or so. I found a few interesting parts, much like I would find it interesting to listen to the tales of any old-timer about the `good old days', and some of his insights about people in general are quite keen.
Some parts really hurt my will to read on. For example, he seems to believe that if a manager can get his team members to work lots of overtime, that higher productivity will automatically follow. Someone who has written books about the use of careful measurements during software development should know better. The evidence I've seen and read (in other books) indicates that regular overtime is a `bad smell' of deeper problems, and a perfect recipe for low quality and ultimately failed projects.
He even claims that the manager's job is to put schedule pressure on the engineers, otherwise they'll take forever and never get anything done. Again, he includes a little anecdotal example. However, with very few exceptions all of the engineers I've worked with hold themselves to certain standards of quality and productivity. Usually management pressure (especially the old time-crunch game) just hurts more than it helps.
Overall, much of his advice doesn't fit with the reality I've been experiencing lately.
I recommend comparing and contrasting Humphrey's advice with that found in "Peopleware" (2nd ed.) by DeMarco & Lister.
Also, for even better book full of `management tips' see "201 Principles of Software Development" by Davis.
Really perceptive book.......2000-01-18
Keenly written book, shows the depth of Watts Humphrey's experience. Greatly rewarding for anyone who is willing to look at situations without applying oppressor/oppressed stereotypes. The book will sail cleanly over the heads of those who do not have at least 4-5 years of hands-on management experience, and will boink the others between the eyes. The sections where he talks about why technical people appear dissatisfied and how managers fail them were just amazingly useful once I forgot to fight the contents.
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Teamwork, projects, collaborative problem solving, innovation, and creativity are central to success in engineering, especially in the increasingly global economy. The overall goal of Teamwork and Project Management, Third Edition is to prepare you for these aspects of professional practice in engineering. The approach involves engaging you in activity, reflection, and collaboration to build your knowledge and skills.
Specific goals for readers of Teamwork and Project Management, Third edition include:
• To understand the professional skills aspects of engineering and their role in modern engineering practice.
• To understand the dynamics of team development and interpersonal problem solving.
• To identify strategies for accelerating the development of high-performance teamwork.
• To understand the critical dimensions of project scope, time, cost management, as well as the role of the customer or client.
• To understand and be able to apply the critical technical and professional competencies in project management.
• To explore a variety of best practices including anticipating, preventing, and overcoming barriers to project success.
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Approaching teamwork from the technical professional's perspective, this comprehensive, hands-on manual provides a ten-step model for effective teamwork and covers the essential teamwork principles with simulation cases in every chapter. The volume addresses the three types of team—work teams, improvement teams and standing committees—as well as the factors that work against effective teamwork, the character traits that promote effective teamwork and team leadership principles. The volume outlines a ten-step model to effective teamwork, establishing direction and goals, clear roles and ground-rules for teams and accountability, as well as developing team-leadership skills, communication skills and conflict-management skills. The volume also teaches how to establish a well-defined decision-making process and empower team members, positive team behaviors, recognize and reward team performance and make teamwork part of the culture. For engineers, architects, manufacturing personnel, construction managers, computer professionals and other technical professionals.
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In Human Factors in Project Management, author Zachary Wong—a noted trainer and acclaimed leader of more than 250 project teams—provides a summary of "people-based" management skills and techniques that can be applied when working in a team environment. This comprehensive resource brings together in one book new and current models in team motivation and integrates the most significant concepts in team motivation and behaviors into a single set of principles called "Human Factors." Wong shows how these factors can be applied to the most challenging issues facing project managers today including
- Motivating a diverse workforce
- Facilitating team decisions
- Resolving interpersonal conflicts
- Managing difficult people
- Strengthening team accountability
- Communications
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Think with your head, act with your hands, and feel with your heart.......2007-08-17
Human factors are too often overlooked as the "soft skills" that are actually essential to develop and grow high-performance project teams. Not anymore according to the words and wisdom espoused by Dr. Zachary Wong. Fasten your seat belts to take a ride with him on an adventurous journey that will help to develop and improve your organization, team, and surprisingly yourself through transformational change.
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Managing the Development of New Products: Achieving Speed and Quality Simultaneously Through Multifunctional Teamwork
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Today's competitive marketplace demands high quality and a fast track from drawing board to finished product. This guide shows how companies can gain a competitive edge by applying powerful project management tools to the product development process. The authors focus on speed to market, quality management, profitability, and multifunctional teamwork. They provide tools for handling the technical concerns of project development and maintenance, as well as people-related issues such as team motivation and the demands of top management. Particular attention is given to saving time and streamlining performance with the latest project management software. Chapters on everything from start-up to completion cover how to:
- Define the new product project aims and goals
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- Plan, develop, and schedule projects
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A step-by-step plan is provided for all the members of the product development team, including marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and other personnel. Strategies cover how to organize the product project team and product support team, complete with tips on assigning tasks, coordinating functions, and subcontracting. Detailed guidelines on how to be a successful project manager address control, communication, and conflict resolution. Also discussed is how to monitor project progress, including preparing reports and conducting project reviews. Many practical examples show how to apply the book's techniques in real-world situations. Managing the Development of New Products is essential reading for new product development team members at all levels, including marketing, engineering, and manufacturing personnel. Professors and students in departments of business management or engineering management will also find the book valuable.
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Outstanding review product development process.......1997-07-03
The seminal text on product development by two of the top consultants in the field. A must read ror anyone involved in the product development proces
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Organizational models for collaboration in the new economy.: An article from: Human Resource Planning
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From the author: The new economy is a global knowledge-based economy. In this article, we briefly examine how the technology drivers of the new economy are influencing customer expectations and other performance requirements. We then describe how the World Wide Web and other information technologies are influencing the organization of innovative, project-based collaboration within teams, companies, and industrial communities and the recent rise (and fall) of dot.coms and their associated Web-enabled business and community project networks. Finally, we review how these new economy models of work create both challenges and opportunities for the practice of human resource management.
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Title: Organizational models for collaboration in the new economy.
Author: Robert J. DeFillippi
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Human Resource Planning (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
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A practical approach for managing team writing projects. (Practicalities): An article from: Technical Communication
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on November 1, 1992. The length of the article is 4381 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Team writing can be more difficult than writing alone since documents tend to lose their unity of purpose when written by different people. Based on studies of past research and actual experience, an eight-step process for team writing projects is presented.
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Title: A practical approach for managing team writing projects. (Practicalities)
Author: Chuck Keller
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Project Management & Teamwork (B.E.S.T. Series)
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A succinct, to-the-point tutorial on project management--part of the expert-authored B.E.S.T. (Basic Engineering Series and Tools) series. Enhances the reader's comprehension of critical technical competencies in project management; team development dynamics and interpersonal problem-solving; and project scope, time, and cost management. Sparks critical thinking through cases, vignettes, and problems that provide a context for text material.
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Project teams that get results.(Careers)(Leadership skills): An article from: Strategic Finance
Max Messmer
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Title: Project teams that get results.(Careers)(Leadership skills)
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Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy
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Republicanism and the French Revolution reassesses Jean-Baptiste Say's political economy by locating the author's ideas amidst the intellectual upheavals of Old Regime and revolutionary France. Traditionally Say has been portrayed as a rather staid figure, the archetypal liberal and classical political economist devoted to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. This study reveals the historic Say to have been altogether different; a passionate and committed republican intellectual and French patriot, he was as opposed to Britain's constitution, commerce, and political culture as he was to Bonaparte's First Empire. The relationship between Say's political thought and political economy, evinced in the full range of his writings from 1789 to 1832, is scrutinized for the first time, elucidating the true origins of his republicanism. This derived from a rich seam of political speculation among French and Genevan radicals concerning the possibility of transforming large and corrupt monarchies into modern republics whose political culture was characterized by commerce and virtue. By the 1790s such ideas had come to define the French Revolution itself, at once promising to restore French greatness and replace Britain as the leading cultural force in Europe. Say looked back to such luminaries as Diderot, Gibbon, and Franklin as members of the modern republican Pantheon and dedicated his life to formulating a political economy that would persuade legislators and ordinary citizens to embrace the republican creed.
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J.B. Say Republican Revolutionary.......2003-06-09
Richard Whatmore's "Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean Baptiste Say's Political Economy" ia a brilliant addition to the history of Say and the French Revolution. Whatmore reveals a side of Say unknown to most, his republicanism.
Say was a solider in the Revolutionary Army, and a fervent believer in the French Revolution. Not even the Terror changed his belief in the French republican experiment. Say, known for his liberal economic views, was also a defender and exponent of modern republicanism. Say believed that popular education, manners, virtue, and industry were necessary to a free republic.
Say was an opponent of feudalism, slavery, religious bigotry, and monarchy. He believed monarchy an absurd form of government and that aristocracy was immoral and corrupted men. An advocate of the common man, Say felt that commerce, free trade, and progressive taxation would free the lower classes from the grip of the Old Regime. He believed in the disestablishment of the Catholic Church as also necessary to a free republican order.
Say, although orginally a supporter of Napoleon, became a fervent opponent. He despised the despotism, reinstatment of the Church,and the creation of hierachical orders instituted by the Emperor. Say oppsed the imposition of the Bourbons in 1815 and was an opponent of the monarchy until his death in 1832.
Say was a remarkable man, an enlightened economist, and a staunch republican, deserving of our admiration today. A great book.
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Title: Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: Roy Arthur Swanson
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