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The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Expert's Voice) 2nd ed. Edition

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The crucial wisdom-guide to surviving within the programming industry in 2006. Provides raw material for surviving and thinking smart in today's industry. Delivered with the wit and aplomb to make a serious topic entertaining and palatable

TE Conquer Master self-defense techniques to shield yourself, your project, and your code from corporate politics, arbitrary management decisions, and marketing-driven deadlines

Explains how the individual programmer or project manager can work within the existing system to solve deadline problems and regain control of the development process

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Founder of Practical Strategy Consulting, Christopher Duncan is the bestselling author of Unite the Tribes and The Career Programmer. He's been a frequent guest on radio shows across the country, his monthly columns have been read by hundreds of thousands worldwide, and he is widely acclaimed for his immensely practical approach to success in the real world where self interest and office politics are often more prevalent than common sense. This keen insight does not come by accident. Christopher has an unusually diverse background which includes a career in sales consulting, life as a professional musician, and experience fighting deadlines as a cubicle-dwelling software developer. He's also performed mind-numbing factory work, labored on construction sites, and built components for guided missiles. Currently, he writes, speaks and mentors professionals on career and business strategies. He understands the problems and goals of your people, from the lowest-paid workers to the executive elite, because he's been there himself and lived to tell the tale. Whether he's talking about the job-related anxieties of the night watchman's attack chihuahua or explaining the relationship between bunny slippers and corporate productivity, his humor and light-hearted antics will entertain your audience as he shares his vision of success through the pursuit of American excellence. Lively, expressive, and a consummate professional with three decades of stage experience, Christopher delivers an exciting and practical message to your people, inspiring them to reach for their very best and showing them how to get there in the real world, where things don't always go according to plan. Most importantly, he makes sure that everyone has a little fun in the process. He can be reached at www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 2nd ed. edition (January 26, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590596242
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590596241
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.67 x 9.02 inches

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KW

Why say few word when many do trick.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2023

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Good: Decent-to-good information (so far) even in 2023. Old-school geek style with some good bits of humor, which is required to survive and laugh at the universe.

Bad: Repetitive. Lengthy and with a fair amount of fluff. Anyone looking for dry, boring and succinct wouldn't enjoy. Some occasional outdated bits.

Edit: kept reading, updated to 4 stars.

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Bill Myers (Author of Design, Code, Test, Repeat)

Good Read for the Corporate Programmer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 13, 2009

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Let me start by saying that I was torn between 3 and 4 stars - call it 3.5. There's some very good content in here, but in my opinion, it gets lost in all of the words. I would have preferred if this had simply been a bit shorter and to the point. This is definitely geared toward people in similar situations to the author, i.e. a programmer working inside of a large company, maybe as a contractor, probably in the IT department. Since my career has been drastically different, I've had some similar issues, but many different ones.

What's good:
- The sooner you realize who runs the show, the sooner you can come to grips with what to do with the information. Is your company run by the programmers? Then you won't have some of the problems that Christopher describes, but you will have others.
- The range of the book is fairly good, from QA, requirements, marketing, and management.
- There are good pointers in here about diplomacy and working with the other powers in your company.

What's not so good:
- The chihuahua jokes. They're just not funny and repeating them as a running gag makes them simply tiresome. If there's a third edition, I'd cut them out.
- It gets repetitive. There's constant talk about the fact that you love to write code and that's all you really want to do. You must also fight, fight, and fight for QA.

All in all a good read, just not a great one.

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Eric Kassan

Some good career advice well delivered

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2010

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To start off, let me state that I enjoyed the book, and found it very well written. That said, it wasn't perfect.

In the introduction, the author states that for the new (2nd) edition, he has left the original chapters alone and added a new third section. While the third section was enlightening (taking a career rather than job perspective), the first two sections could have used some updating.

In the first section, the business world could be presented less adversarially - the author clearly knows both sides and demonstrates it later. I think it would be best if it were presented from the start as another area to understand and work with.

In the second section, Agile has done much to address many of the issues raised. It would be helpful to see how Agile has succeeded, and what new challenges it raised. Also, I was a little disappointed not to see one of my biggest peeves mentioned - the lack of management training within IT. Whether as managers or leads, technology professionals are promoted into leadership positions based on succeeding as individual contributors and never (in my experience) given training in how to lead.

Again, despite the few shortcomings, the Career Programmer is an informative and enjoyable read.

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Lars Albertsson

Do not buy this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2010

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The author provides desillusioned and cynic guidelines on how to survive in a Dilbert world, where everybody who is not a developer is assumed incompetent until the opposite is proven. Make your managers sign things in blood, or they will cheat you, keep your back free, and deceive your management in order to trick them to do the right thing.

The book is supposed to have been printed in 2006, but it seems more like a manuscript picked up from the 80's. The author seems to live in a world where waterfall processes are the only option, and completely ignores modern development process structures that address some of the frustrations he experiences. It may also go to history as the last book to recommend Hungarian notation.

To be fair, the author makes some accurate observations on project dynamics, but they are not worth all the bitterness.

Do not read this book.

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S. Hollis

Pragmatic approach to dealing with business people

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2007

This book does a few things well and trhen does them well again. It is humourous, readable and funny .. oh and practical too. Some what a cross between Dilbert, How to win friends and influence people and the one minute manager series.

This book sets up its chapters to mirror a typical development project scenario from inception to delivery. Each chapter looks at managements needs verses developer needs and how to manage the process of ensuring both sides get what they want.

Chris Duncan rightly points out the coders tend be artists who want to code great code in a perfect environment with little regards to the financial relaities of business. He conversely points out that business people (who pay us to code ) have agendas based on making a profit (which keeps us in paid employment) and that neither side is wrong. His basic approach is, 'Developers live in a business environment dedicated to making money. business managers pay the bills, they call the shots. Get over it and learn how to become saavy enough to survive this reality'.

He also points out that business managers tend to set the development deadlines, decide on the scope, create the scope creep and then fire those who fail to meet their demands. He believes that is our fault as coders for not communicating in an understable way that business managers understand and can relate too. If we can become saavy enough to talk to them in ways they understand ($ and cents) then we have a better chance of managing our projects through to a successful, and non-burn out, completion while also maintaining a life along the way.

Using this as his base line he then gives a set of anecdotes, ideas, stories and humourous observations on the mis-communications that occur between managment (who pays for projects) and the coding teams (who develop the projects). It uses a commonly recognised cast of characters to show how various people interact and where the gaps are that cause long hours of coding to meet impossible deadlines and unstoppable scope creep can occur. he then gives some pragmatic ideas on how to avoid, plug, disarm or minmise these problem areas so both sides have a win / win situation.

What this book doesn't do.

1 - It doesn't attempt to give a magical cure for all develop project ailments in the corporate world, rather it tries to give guidence on the best way to deal with those ailments in a way that meets managmeents needs and avoids personal burnout.

2 - This book is not a book designed to make you a better project manager. It is a book designed to help you be a better coder working in the business world. Become more business needs aware and you will become a better coder. You may even get your life back.

3 - It does not espouse a new project development methodology and it does not give negative ways to sabotage, goof off or earn money for nothing. Rather it looks ways of lubricating the interactions between managmeent and coders so both sides get what they want.

It is funny, readble, accurate and disturbingly familiar (expecially the VDU through the fourth floor window scenario ... I am sure I never told my shrink about that particular fantasy).

So why a four and not a five? I worked in the Govt sector doing project development and unfortunately this book was of no use to me in that situation. govt managers ar not money minded and generally have no accountability so the ideas her present no leverege points that help in that situation. Had the book been called The CORPORATE Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World, Second Edition (Expert's Voice) then the fifth star would have applied. Sorry chris but no one is perfect ;-)

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Nuno Filipe Coimbra

This book has helped me dealing with tight, sometimes "ridiculous" deadlines.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 14, 2013

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It's an important tool for the modern developer. Any developer that is proud to be called that, must at least know some of the tools provided here. As the fast pace of change is ever increasing speed, one must be able to cope with that change. This book tells you that it is "do or die" for the contractor or developer on a small shop. Loved it.

Bordstein

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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 14, 2015

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Sollte man als Software Engineer / Softwareentwickler / Programmierer oder welchen Namen man auch immer trägt gelesen haben. Es ist nett umschrieben wenn auch manchmal etwas extrem. :)

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