Software for Your Head Book

Aimed at forward-thinking software developers and IT managers, Software For Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining SharedVision provides an innovative set of procedures and re-usable "patterns" for improving the way teams work together. This book's amalgam of the lingo of software patterns, management theory (and even New Age and popular psychology) helps make this text one of the most challenging you'll ever read about team building. Based on the authors' considerable experience with Microsoft and their simulated developer "boot camps" run with hundreds of teams, this book eschews providing practical evidence drawn from real projects. Instead, it formulates a unique vocabulary of terms, protocols and patterns that arguably should allow teams to carry out decisions, and build better team focus. Long on theory but consciously short on any practical examples, this title offers an uncompromising vision for getting teams to work together. Though it's doubtful that your average IT department will be able to commit to such a different set of terms for the everyday workplace, Software For Your Head provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of highly committed and collaborative teams written by two legendary ex-Microsoftees. --Richard DraganRead More