Book description
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.
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
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Table of contents
- Shipping Greatness
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- Preface
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One. The Shipping Greatness Process
- 1. How to Build a Great Mission and Strategy
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2. How to Define a Great Product
- Step 1. Write a Press Release
- Step 2. Create a Living Frequently Asked Questions Document
- Step 3. Draw Wireframes and Flowcharts
- Step 4. Write the One-Pager and/or Build a 10-Minute Pitch
- Step 5. Add API s to Your FAQ
- Step 6. Write the Functional Specifications Document
- Step 7. Uncover Edge Cases and Get Buy-in from Your Team
- Step 8. Test on Customers
- Step 9. Figure Out the Basic Business Stuff: Name, Price, and Revenue
- Step 10. Sell Your Completed Product Idea Upstairs
- Your Product Is Ready to Build—Go Build It!
- 3. How to Build a Great User Experience
- 4. How to Achieve Project Management Greatness on a Budget
- 5. How to Do a Great Job Testing
- 6. How to Measure Greatness
- 7. How to Have a Great Launch
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Two. The Shipping Greatness Skills
- 8. How to Build a Shipping-Ready Team
- 9. How to Build Great, Shippable Technology
- 10. How to Be a Great Shipping Communicator
- 11. How to Make Great Decisions
- 12. How to Stay a Great Person While Shipping
- 13. That Was Great; Let’s Do It Again
- A. 10 Principles of Shipping
- B. Essential Artifacts Your Team Needs
- C. References and Further Reading
- D. How to Contact Us
- About the Author
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- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Shipping Greatness
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449336608
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