Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon - Softcover

Mey, Chris Vander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449336574 ISBN 13: 9781449336578

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2012

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Chris Vander Mey is a former Google product manager and Amazon engineering manager, and has held multiple roles in small startups. He has a Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth College and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia. He started writing code two decades ago and has shipped software to hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses.

From the Back Cover

This is your shortcut to a degree in shipping great software. Team leaders today need an extremely broad skill set to find the right product, work through a complex and ever-changing development process, and do it all 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 become sufficiently technical to work 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 BS, and other feedback
• Build metrics to track progress, spot problems, and celebrate success
• Stick to your launch checklist and plan your marketing and PR

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449336574
• ISBN 13: 9781449336578
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224