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Becoming a Technical LeaderBook

by Gerald Weinberg

Who uses, recommends or left Becoming a Technical Leader, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Philip O'Toole
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of the rqlite distributed SQLite database.
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Becoming a Technical Leader is both an interesting and subtle book. At times it feels like a self-help book, at other times a Machiavellian explanation of how programming teams really wok. But in the end it's sincere and mature, and wants to help. Weinberg's introspective style will appeal to many programmers, and it appealed to me. This book is useful because it talks about many of the practical issues of becoming a technical leader or manager within a team of developers — and from many unexpected viewpoints.

A post written after colleagues asked him which programming books had shaped him most.

2016-11-25·philipotoole.com ↗

Vicki Boykis
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; previously at Mozilla.ai, Duo, Tumblr and Automattic, and author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.
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Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald Weinberg - I've read and recommended Weinberg before and recommend him yet again.

Her 'Favorite books of 2023' post.

2023-12-26·vickiboykis.com ↗

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