Shipping Greatness by Chris Vander Mey

Shipping Greatness

Practical Lessons on Building and Launching Outstanding Software, Learned on the Job at Google and Amazon

Chris Vander Mey

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 Management80%
Management28%
Project Management24%

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