The Software Developer's Career Handbook

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• Preface
  • OReilly Online Learning
  • How to Contact Us
  • Acknowledgments
• I. Building a Career Playbook
• 1. How to Win
  • A System Thinker
  • People Are Messy
  • A System of Improvisation
  • A Career Blueprint
  • A Collection of Moments
• 2. A List of Three
  • Technical Direction
  • Growth
  • Delivery
  • Simplifying the Infinite
• 3. The Itch
  • Are You Answering the Email?
    • The Pissed Itch
    • Early Warning Signs of Doom
      • Engagement
      • Wanderlust
    • The Contradiction List
      • Who are you leaving behind?
        • The reality is this
      • Are you done?
        • The reality is this.
      • What itch are you trying to scratch?
        • The reality is this.
  • Bright and Shiny
• 4. The Sanity Check
  • Stalk Your Future Job
  • Initial Tuning
    • Can We Communicate?
    • One More Softball
    • No More Softballs
    • Your Turn
  • The Close
    • Long, Awkward Pauses
    • Adversarial Interactions
    • Howd It Feel?
    • Specific Next Steps
• 5. The Nerves
  • Question Types
  • The Answer Process
  • The Confidence of Knowing a Thing
• 6. The Button
  • Creatures and Structure
    • Interview Creatures
      • Pissed-Off Pete
      • The Talker
      • The Poet
      • Gotcha Greg
      • Slick Steve
      • Silent Bob
      • The CEO
  • A Fresh Perspective
• 7. The Business
  • You Are the Business
  • Actual Earnings
    • What Am I Earning?
  • The Swag
    • Base Salary
    • Title
    • Sign-On Bonus
    • Stock
  • Negotiating Roles
    • Offer Compromise
      • Lower base salary
      • But its OK; heres a bonus
      • Even better, heres a pile of stock
      • And this is our final offer
  • Walk Away
  • Better, Faster, and More
• II. Deconstructing Management
• 8. Your Best Work
  • The Happy New Year
  • The Entirety of Your Attention
  • Thanks, Zack
• 9. The Culture Chart
  • Days
  • Bridge
  • Detecting Culture
  • Culture Definers
  • Game Over
• 10. Managing Managers
  • A Management Assessment
    • Is There a 1:1?
    • Is a Staff Meeting a Casual or Structured Affair?
    • Are There Status Reports?
    • What Meetings Does She Schedule?
    • How Often Is His Hand in the Cookie Jar?
  • The Essential Elements
  • The Loop
• 11. Managing Up
  • On Experience
  • Up
  • Partial Information
  • Beware the Doof
  • Everything
• 12. The Leaper
  • On Excuses
  • On Delivery
  • Say Something Real
• 13. The Enemy
  • Management Transformations
    • The Interrogator
    • The Prioritizer
    • The Randomizer
    • The Illuminator
    • The Enemy
  • The M Word
• 14. The Impossible
  • A Hint of an Insane Plan
  • Skin in the Game
  • The Importance of Respect
  • What He Really Wants
• 15. Knee Jerks
  • One-Eighth of a Second
  • The Jerks
    • Dr. No
    • Raging Bull
    • Still Water
    • Distiller
    • The Handler
    • My Bad
    • Were Doomed
    • I Quit
  • Stages of Jerk
• 16. Invest in the Boring
  • Sigh
    • Three Meetings
      • 1:1s with my staff
      • Staff
      • Look What We Built meeting
    • Make Room for Something Else
• 17. Gaming the System
  • An Entertaining System
    • Discovery: From Confusion to Control
    • Optimization, Repetition, and Win: A Paradox and a Warning
    • Achievement: Who Cares if You Win by Yourself?
    • The Rules of the Game
      • The rules need to be clear
      • The rules must be inviolable
      • The playing of the game must be inclusive, visible, and broadcasted
      • Use money as a reward only as a last resort
      • Its not a game
  • The Whiteboard Game
• 18. Managing Werewolves
  • A Dangerous Scenario
  • People Lie, Some Are Evil, Others Just Want to Screw You Over
  • This Isnt Role-Playing; This Is Life or Death
  • We Cant Let the Werewolves Win
• 19. BAB
  • On the Topic of Trust
    • BAB
      • In BAB, you talk shit
      • In BAB, you learn things unintentionally
      • In BAB, youre having work experiences without the work
  • The Second Staff Meeting
• 20. Your People
  • Share What You Build
  • You Tell Stories
• 21. Wanted
  • The Requisition Situation
    • Spend an Hour a Day on Each Req You Have
    • I Found Them! Im Done!
  • Deliberate Want
  • Hire for Your Career
• 22. The Toxic Paradox
  • Big Fat Toxic Assumptions
    • Go Team!
    • A Toxic Paradox
  • Everyone Is an Adjustment
• 23. By Design
  • Interlude
  • Your Job as a Leader
• 24. The Core of Kindness
  • The Coach
  • The Fixer
  • The Leader
• III. Your Daily Toolkit
• 25. The Nerd Handbook
  • Understanding Your Nerd
    • Understand Your Nerds Relation to the Computer
    • Your Nerd Has Control Issues
    • Your Nerd Has Built Herself a Cave
    • Your Nerd Loves Toys and Puzzles
    • Nerds Are Fucking Funny
    • Your Nerd Has an Amazing Appetite for Information
    • Your Nerd Has Built an Annoyingly Efficient Relevancy Engine in His Head
    • Your Nerd Might Come Off as Not Liking People
  • Advanced Nerd Tweakage
    • Map the Things Hes Bad at to the Things He Loves
    • Make It a Project
    • People Are the Most Interesting Content Out There
  • The Next High
• 26. The Taste of the Day
  • The New Gig
  • The Taste of the Day
    • The Morning Scrub
    • Practice Productivity Minimalism
    • The Evening
• 27. The Trickle List
  • Trickle Creation
  • The Trickle Process
  • Structured Improvisation
• 28. What We Lost
  • This Is Not a Meeting
  • Five or Seven Senses
  • Endless Bits of Friction
  • And That Was Not Princess Leia
• 29. The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools
  • The Foamy Rules
    • My Tools Appear Deceptively Simple
    • My Tools Do Not Care Where My Work Is
    • My Tools Are Designed to Remove Repetitive Motion
    • My Tools Do Only What Ive Told Them to Do
    • My Tools Are My Tools
  • An Evolving Foaminess
• 30. Up to Nothing
  • An Essential Exercise in Inactivity
  • Up to Nothing
  • Dont Look for It
• 31. How to Not Throw Up
  • Not Throwing Up Is a Two-Phase Process
    • Phase 1: Practice Endlessly
    • Phase 2: Throw-Up Avoidance
      • Improvise
  • Fret
• 32. Out Loud
  • Presentation or Speech?
  • The Unforgivable Mistake
  • The Disaster
  • Reduction
  • Presentation Punctuation
  • Something for Their Pocket
• 33. Bits, Features, and Truth
  • That Damned Triangle
    • Bits, Features, and Truth
      • Bits
      • Features
      • Truth
    • Circle of Comfort
    • Circle Analysis
      • Bits and features are the same
      • Truth is the same as features
  • Let the Negotiation Begin; Its About the Debate
• 34. The Reveal
  • Three Phases
  • Three Alphas
    • Alpha Nothing: Im saying absolutely nothing.
    • Alpha Game: Im game, but you drive.
    • Alpha Drive: Ill drive.
  • The Holy Shit Event Horizon
• 35. The Sabotage List
  • The Untitled List
  • The Reasons
• 36. Check Your Work, Ask for Help, and Slow Down
  • Check Your Work
  • Ask for Help
  • Slow Down
  • What If Im Wrong?
• 37. OK. So, You Cant Decide
  • You Just Need to Decide
• IV. Your Next Gig
• 38. The Screw-Me Scenario
  • You Might Be Lying
  • A Rubber Stamp Affair
  • No Guilt, No Doubts, No Fear
  • Game On
  • The Unforgivable Spin
  • A Screw-Me Detection Policy
• 39. No Surprises
  • Show Me the Money
    • Measures Versus Content
    • A Review Is a Conversation
    • Surprise!
  • The Permanence of the Written
• 40. A Deliberate Career
  • Three Choices
    • Question #1: Startup or Established?
      • Startup
      • Established
    • Question #2: Industry and Brand
    • Question #3: Management or Development?
      • Why would anyone want to be a manager?
  • A Complete Opportunity Move
• 41. The Curse of Silicon Valley
  • Apprenticeship
  • On Language
    • Everyone Hates Engineering
      • No one knows what we actually do to build the software, so they assume its easy
      • We take our work personally and believe no one else does
      • Our relationship is with the bits
  • The Curse
  • Engineering Gone Mainstream
• 42. A Disclosure
  • Management Is a Total Career Restart
  • You Go to a Lot of Meetings
  • You Are a Communication Hub
  • Abstraction and Filtering
  • You Will Be a Multilingual Translator
  • Drama Everywhere
  • Context Switcher
  • Say No
  • Say Yes
  • Trust So You Can Scale
• 43. Mind the Gap
  • The Gaps
    • Knowledge and Ability: Alpha Knowledge
    • Power and Influence: Maestro
    • Network and Communication: The Insider
  • A Matter of Perspective
• 44. The Cello in Soho Square
  • Still Playing Destiny
  • Are You Willing to Do the Work?
  • To Inspire
• 45. The Exodus
  • This Sucks
    • Two Threads
      • Tactical
      • Strategic
    • The First Wave
      • Where does this exodus begin?
      • Why are they leaving?
      • Why are they letting them go?
    • The Second Wave
      • Approach #1: Wait it out
      • Approach #2: Stem the tide
    • The Third Wave
  • Which Wave?
• 46. Bad News About Your Bright Future
  • Whats Next
  • Biased by the Now
  • An Uncomfortable Ending
• Epilogue: Hurry
  • Youre in a Hurry
• A. The Rules of Back Alley Bridge
  • Preparing for Back Alley Bridge
  • Rules of Play
• Index

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