Shipping greatness

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1. e9Aug 2023
   For this topic I recommend book called Shipping Greatness. The book has different sections for non technical people on how to work with engineers and how to work with designers.
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2. e9Mar 2023
   Shipping Greatness by Chris Vander Mey
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3. e9Dec 2021
   Relevant books:

   - Shipping Greatness

   - Managing Humans

   - Team Genius

   Coding practices are hard and team specific. 60 people company is small enough where things change fast so if you make "coding practices" too tight and restrictive then some people will be unhappy and unproductive. Good start:

   - have linter to check for basic mistakes and perform code formatting

   - do some testing (integration tests are good because most problems happen between modules and not within modules). Code coverage is a divisive topic but I personally find it useful to understand what parts of software are not well tested.

   - Build/deployment dashboards for everyone to see. If you break the build your name is shown as a shame factor etc. Many years ago when I was young and dumb and at a startup, you had to take a shot and run a mile if you break the build. Worked wonders to keep things stable.

   - establish some code review culture. As company grows you'll probably eventually need to pass some compliance requirements. Those usually require you to code review anything that goes to production. So you can't go wrong with: each merge to master needs to be reviewed by someone. It's a bit annoying for a small company but will pay off in the future. If you don't want to go that far then at least identify critical files in the code and require any changes to them to be reviewed.

   What separates good lead/manager from bad one is caring. By posting this question you already show that you care, which means you are on the path to becoming good lead/manager :)

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4. ternaryoperatorMay 2020
   Shipping Greatness by Chris Vander Mey is a brilliant book that relates his experience at Google and Amazon and the culture of quality necessary to ship reliable products that will be used by millions. Well written and a great read.
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5. webmavenJun 2014
   From a technical perspective, I have found 'The Mature Optimization Handbook' invaluable: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-matu... (HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6763683)

   'Team Geek' is a great primer on technical leadership: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018025.do

   Another recommended book is 'Shipping Greatness': http://shippinggreatness.com

   Assuming you're already familiar with 'The Lean Startup', there has been a series of excellent 'sequels' on many more specific disciplines that you will likely find useful: http://theleanstartup.com/the-lean-series

   A recent addition (that I am still digesting) on Agile processes beyond Scrum is 'Unblock!': http://www.continuousagile.com/unblock/ (Posted to HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921200)

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6. e9Jun 2020
   Shipping Greatness

   https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Greatness-Practical-launchin...

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