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Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration 1st Edition

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In the course of their 20+-year engineering careers, authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman have picked up a treasure trove of wisdom and anecdotes about how successful teams work together. Their conclusion? Even among people who have spent decades learning the technical side of their jobs, most haven’t really focused on the human component. Learning to collaborate is just as important to success. If you invest in the "soft skills" of your job, you can have a much greater impact for the same amount of effort.

The authors share their insights on how to lead a team effectively, navigate an organization, and build a healthy relationship with the users of your software. This is valuable information from two respected software engineers whose popular series of talks―including "Working with Poisonous People"―has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers.

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Brian Fitzpatrick is Founder and CTO of Tock. Brian started Google’s Chicago engineering office with Ben in 2005 and led several of Google’s global engineering efforts, including the Data Liberation Front, and Transparency Engineering. He also served as internal advisor for Google’s open data efforts, having previously led the Google Code and Google Affiliate Network teams. Prior to joining Google, Brian worked as an engineer at Apple, CollabNet, and a local Chicago development shop.

Brian has written numerous articles and given dozens of presentations, including cowriting Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others, Version Control with Subversion (now in its second edition), and chapters for Unix in a Nutshell and Linux in a Nutshell.

Brian has an A.B. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago with a major in Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in Fine Arts and Ceramics. He resides in Chicago.

Ben Collins-Sussman was one of the founding developers of the Subversion version control system. He cofounded Google’s engineering office in Chicago, launched Google Code, led two display advertising teams, and now manages teams that power Google’s search infrastructure. He’s currently the engineering Site Lead for Google Chicago, but also collects hobbies―including authoring interactive fiction, playing bluegrass banjo and jazz piano, composing musicals, operating ham radios, and exploring photography. Ben is a proud native of Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Chicago with a major in Mathematics and minor in Linguistics. He still lives in Chicago with his wife, kids, and cats.

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491932058
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491932056
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Samvel

Simple but powerful

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The book is about simple but very powerful tactics when applied in daily work. Great content!

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Duncan Henderson

good advice for leads and managers and a fun read

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Honestly, there wasn't anything here that was 'Wow, I didn't know that', but I wish I had read something like this 10 years ago.

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Marcus Hammarberg

Solid well packaged advice throughout

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Loved the format and easy going writing. Underneath that glossy surface is a book packed with solid advice for any person leading one or more software team.

If I should list anything negative it could be that the open-source example situations might be a little bit hard to translate into context for the enterprise developer. That's compensated with a fair share of enterprise stories too so there's no big problem.

Thank you for a great book

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The book came into my life at a good time. A company I've invested in has had ...

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The book came into my life at a good time. A company I've invested in has had difficulty scaling its business. Over the past three years, we've had three sales managers and flat sales. So, the book's message--the three elements of team building are Humility, Respect and Trust--was right down my ally. The writing is easy and breezy. There are good examples. I particularly like the parts about manager acting as a servant to employees and the one about dealing with poisonous people. Like a lot of these how-to books, there's no magic bullet but it's worthwhile getting yourself thinking specifically to focus on an issue: Without a solid team, you can't scale.

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L. Peterman

Outstanding book, very accessible even to non-technical professionals.

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I enjoyed this book so much that I made a somewhat impulsive decision to make it required reading in my software architecture class. Each semester a percentage of my students consistently struggle to work successfully in ad-hoc teams. This book is the antidote. It empowers them with specific approaches to dealing with nearly every common teamwork malady. Great work by both authors!

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Saurabh Agarwal

Great book thats not only talking about Team work

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2019

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Great book thats not only talking about Team work but also how to exercise basic social traits like humility

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Frank

Awesome book on team work.

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Full of insights, and clear definitions and guides on common situations. A must read for those who are individual contributors as well as those in management.

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People are messy, unpredictable, and often annoying to interface with, say the authors. This book will help you improve collaboration.

Warning: Version 1 of this book is called, “Team Geek”. I ordered this book because I raved about Team Geek and had bought copies for others. I wanted to see what new things the authors had to say. It wasn’t until I had the book in hand and read the forward that I learned this is the second edition to Team Geek. This information should be in the basic description. The same six chapter titles exist in both books:

• The Myth of the Genius Programmer
• Building an Awesome Team Culture
• Every Boat Needs a Captain
• Dealing with Poisonous People
• The Art of Organizational Manipulation
• Users are People Too

The mission changes slightly from; to help programmers… to help people spend less time fighting and more time creating. In my estimation, about 80% of the material is the same; in some cases it’s been reframed. There are new stories and cute cartoon like pictures.

The underlying premise of both books is that humility, trust, and respect is what builds effective and collaborative teams. Version 2.0 attempts to make it more generic and for software engineers. In that, it doesn’t do so well. It is an excellent book for folks who are familiar with terms like: CVS (not the drugstore), port (not the drink), proxy (not the stock voting kind), and Apache (not the helicopter) and who haven’t already read Team Geek. It’s clever, convincing, and easy and fun to read for the right audience.

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David

Like many other developers I love the technology but often ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2016

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I have been a software developer for 16 years on many projects. Like many other developers I love the technology but often struggle with people. Developers often complain about language features and software design and other technological gripes but in my experience it is people and politics that cause the vast majority of the stress and confusion in the workplace. In this way software development is much like any other profession.

This book does not have all the answers but it is a wonderful start. There is a great deal of wisdom and a great many life lessons contained inside. I am still learning to apply these lessons to my working life but can already see the benefits.

In addition the book is succinct. It is a definite problem with most non-technical computing books that they are bloated beyond reason ("The Art of Agile Development " is one such book where the message is all but lost in a confusion of poorly edited rambling).

Debugging Teams is a book I love and wish had been available when I started my career!

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How to become a good employee

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2020

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This book shows readers how to be good employees. The anecdotal evidence in it is mostly Google-specific. As Google is a rather unusual company, some of the advice given in the book may not be applicable to normal companies where money is tight and people fight to keep their jobs.

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A must have handbook for today's software engineer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2019

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The authors obviously know their stuff, and each page provides insight that is worth taking note of. With real suggestions and advice, I highly recommend this book to anyone working in a team, especially within the software industry.

This will be kept on my desk as a ‘go to guide’ from now.

Thanks to Brian and Ben for sharing their knowledge with the rest of us.

Andrea Pietroni

Da leggere e rileggere

Reviewed in Italy on April 26, 2022

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Molte conferme, qualche esame di coscienza. Un libretto da leggere assolutamente, e rileggere, perché chi si sente un "tecnico" può spesso finire col lasciare in secondo piano cose molto importanti per la serena convivenza nel team e anche per la propria carriera.

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Martín Pastorín

Amazing book!

Reviewed in Germany on April 4, 2020

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I found this book super useful as a team lead. I still come back to it once and then

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