
Shipping Greatness
Practical Lessons on Building and Launching Outstanding Software, Learned on the Job at Google and Amazon
O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · October 2, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- Team leaders seeking practical guidance on shipping software.
- Themes
- Software development lifecycle, Product and project management, Team leadership
- Genres
- Software Project Management, Project Management, Management
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Need a shortcut to a degree in shipping great software? Successful team leaders must have an extremely broad skill set to find the right product, work through a complex and ever-changing development process, and do it all incredibly quickly. In this guide, Chris Vander Mey provides a simplified, no-BS approach to the entire software lifecycle, distilled from lessons he learned as a manager at Amazon and Google.
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In the first part of the book, you’ll learn a step-by-step shipping process used by many of the best teams at Google and Amazon. Part II shows you the techniques, best practices, and skills you need to face an array of challenges in product, program, project, and engineering management. - Clearly define your product and develop your mission and strategy - Assemble your team and understand enough about systems to communicate with them - Create a beautiful, intuitive, and simple user experience - Track your team’s deliverables and closely manage the testing process - Communicate clearly to gracefully handle requests, senior-management interactions, and feedback from various sources - Build metrics to track progress, spot problems, and celebrate success - Stick to your launch checklist and plan for marketing and PR
Who it’s for
- Team leaders seeking practical guidance on shipping software.
- Product, project, program, and engineering managers.
Where it sits
| Software Project Management | 80% |
|---|---|
| Management | 28% |
| Project Management | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Testing & QA
- Software Project Management
- Dev Tools & Workflow
- Authors
- Chris Vander Mey
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- Published
- October 2, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Software development lifecycle · Product and project management · Team leadership
- Reading lane
- Testing & QA