{"product_id":"2940013613614","title":"Roundtable on Technical Leadership","description":"Joined by coeditors Marie Benesh and James Bullock, consultant's consultant Gerald M. Weinberg highlights forty experts' secrets for building and sustaining a leadership role in software development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParticipants of the SHAPE forum, many of them software consultants and managers at the world's most successful software companies, logged in to help each other identify the \"stupid tricks\" that developers are tempted to employ in design, code, and documentation—tricks that seem clever in the short term but have damaging long-term effects.\u003cbr\u003eTopics include programming, design, documentation, teaching, learning, educating management, being yourself, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapter titles are descriptive content headers and they are as follows:\u003cbr\u003e1) Tricks That Ignore Those Who Come After.\u20282) Tricks That Destroy Portability.\u20283) Stupid Design Tricks.\u20284) Stupid Design Document Tricks.\u20285) Tricks Arising From Social Inadequacy.\u20286) Experts And Gurus As Leaders.\u20287) The Leader As Learner.\u20288) The Expert As Teacher.\u20289) The Courage To Teach In Any Direction.\u202810) The Courage To Be Yourself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented in an easy-to-read dialogue format, true to the comments' original appearance on the Web, this is the second stand-alone book drawn from Weinberg's SHAPE forum, following Roundtable on Project Management.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include Jim Batterson, James Bullock, Pat Ferdinandi, Fritz, Phil Fuhrer, Jesse Gordon, Don Gray, Brian Gulino, Peter Harris, Joseph Howard, Kevin Huigens, Steve Jackson, James Jarrett, Bob King, Dave Kleist, Henry Knapp, Brian Knopp, Fredric Laurentine, Pat McGee, Nate McNamara, George Olsen, Mark Passolt, Sue Petersen, Dwayne Phillips, Brian Richter, Sharon Marsh Roberts, Brett Schuchert, Stuart Scott, Dave Smith, Steve Smith, Daniel Starr, Wayne Strider, Pete TerMaat, Phil Trice, Bill Trierweiler, Marianne Tromp, Jerry Weinberg, and Kay Wise.","brand":"Gerald Weinberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147531763952,"sku":"2940013613614","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013613614_p0.jpg?v=1763583025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013613614","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}