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My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job (Pragmatic Programmers) 1st Edition

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You've already lost your job. You may still be drawing a paycheck, but the job you were hired to do no longer exists. Your company has changed, the technology has changed, the economy has changed, and the ways you can add value have changed. Have you adapted to these changes? Or are you at risk?

Architect your career

Economic downturn. Job cuts. Outsourcing. The ever-changing tech landscape. The threats abound. Chad Fowler is here to offer 52 ways to keep your job, despite the vagaries of the market.

It's all about making the right choices. Choosing which technologies to focus on and which business domains to master have at least as much impact on your success as your technical knowledge--don't let those choices be accidental. Chad shows you all aspects of the decision-making process so you can ensure that you're investing your time and energy in the right areas.
It's all about skills. You'll develop a structured plan for keeping your skills up-to-date so that you can compete with both the growing stable of developers in so-called low-cost countries as well as your higher-priced local peers. You'll learn how to shift your skillset up the value chain, from an offshore-ready commodity to one in high demand.
It's all about marketing. As with any product or service, if nobody knows what you're selling, nobody will buy. Chad shows you how to create a plan for marketing yourself both inside your company and to the industry in general.

Like it or not, the IT career landscape has changed. This handbook will teach you what you need to do to avoid being left behind.

About the authorChad Fowler has been a software developer and manager for some of the world's largest corporations. He recently lived and worked in India, setting up and leading an offshore software development center for a large multinational company.

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0976694018
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978-0976694014
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1st
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Pragmatic Bookshelf
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September 29, 2005
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English
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7.5 x 0.61 x 9 inches
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232 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1st edition (September 29, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0976694018
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0976694014
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.61 x 9 inches

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Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world’s largest companies and most admired software developers.

Chad is VP of Engineering at LivingSocial. He is co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf and author or co-author of a number of popular software books, including The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development.

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52 Ways to be the "Best of the Best"

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2008

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This book was a much needed wakeup call with respect to the realities of software engineering and the international market for those skills. We all understand that international competition is driving businesses to reduce costs by outsourcing software engineering projects, but few U.S. software engineers have a plan for countering the effects of this outsourcing. Chad Fowler's first hand experience managing outsourcing teams in India allows him to provide a unique cultural and professional perspective with the survival techniques needed by U.S. software engineers. From the content of this book, it is apparent that Chad Fowler is experienced, current and knowledgeable in the magical and demanding art of software engineering management. This book provides 52 bullets of behaviors/practices for evolving into the "best of the best" in order to insulate yourself from the impacts of outsourcing - and he justifies each of these with real world examples. This book is a great companion to the masterpiece book "Pragmatic Programmer" by Hunt and Thomas, which addresses the craft of software engineering with equally convincing justifications and examples.

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joe bradley

A good self-improvement manual for programmers... but please ignore the title

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2006

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Like a lot of the other reviewers, I agreed with the contents of this book. The contents are well-organized and presented, and all of the points are hard to argue with. However, some caution is in order.

This book is only tangentially about outsourcing. The title of the book implies this book is how one can thward the challenge of outsourcing. Now, the contents of the book are an ably-crafted, well-written set of tips on how to increase one's effectiveness as a programmer, which I would have no hesitation of recommending to programmers of just a few years' experience. So one might guess that the thrust of the book is: "If you are an able enough programmer, both from a technical and the business sense, you need not feel threatened by outsourcing." Unfortunately, the author didn't address this connection, at least not strongly enough to make an impression on me. And I bought the book because I wanted characterization specifically of outsourcing as a job threat, rather than just another force in a tighter labor market.

In short, if you are an entry-level, or even intermediate-level programmer this book has a lot to recommend it. However, I have to dock this book by a point because it really do what it says it sets out to do. Had it been titled "How to improve your programming in 52 steps" I would've given it 4 or 5 starts. But as an old hand, I also wouldn't have bought it either.

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Andrew Violette

A valuable read

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2005

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Forget about the spectre of "offshoring" for a second: this book is about what you need to do to be a better software professional. On the flip side, this book can also be used as a guide on how to _hire_ good programmers. Each chapter is about 2 to 3 pages long and presents anecdotal information about how to make yourself a better programmer _and_ business person.

I would say that most of his advice really falls into one of these categories: constantly improve yourself, constantly seek to improve others, and be knowledgeable of your business and customers.

There are valuable tidbits in here that are common sense to some, but I am amazed with how many people I know that don't follow them. Even if they are all common sense this book helps these ideas crystallize in your psyche. Here are some of my favorites:

#7 Don't base your career on one technology: for example Java, Lotus Notes, etc.

#8 Be the worst. Surrounding yourself with really good people is a lot better way to learn than being the best. I agree with this.

#9 Love it or leave it. The people I like to work with the most are the people with passion for what they do. They are the ones that are constantly seeking to do things the right way. They are the ones who are innovating.

The reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that towards the end I thought the last several chapters were kind of fluffy and didn't provide any concrete advise. But overall, I think this book is very good.

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Ruben

Jazz and programming

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2012

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Hello, i just want to say that this book is great, this man talks about music and then shows you how jazz music is like programming. For example, he says that a musician is always practicing in order to have a good live presentation... but as programmers we often practice at work (a live concert). I just bought a book to know better about being a DBA, why we should just be an expert in coding and not knowing much about DBA? (be a generalist, great tip). It's short, to the point, I Just love it!

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Alex Ivanov

Insightful, great career advice for a beginner

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2008

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I just graduated from college and started working as a developer for a software company. Life in college is very different from professional life. I felt a little lost and wasn't sure how to manage my time at work and outside of work. I wasn't sure about how the world works outside of college. This book gave me some good advice and guidance. It is also a fun read and contains some useful facts and moral lessons.

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bongo

Unimpressive, general career advice.

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2007

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This book has a bunch of generic advice along the lines of keep up with things and don't put all your eggs in one basket. Not exactly a revelation here.
If you read the relevant blogs, web sites and talk to people in the industry you don't need this book.

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Honest/practical opinions and ideas

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2006

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This is NOT an out-sourcing bashing book. Great!!! Instead it talks about your career as part of normal business competition. It helps you see why your company values you and how to improve that value. It is somewhat IT biased but the majority of the information is valid for all technical professionals.

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014

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Good advise but not a lot of details. Very general advise which can be found at many different sites on the web.

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el titulo puede engañar

Reviewed in Spain on August 22, 2022

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El título es un poco desafortunado, pero el libro trata sobre buenas prácticas para ser un buen profesional de la programación basándose en la experiencia de lo que su empresa buscaba durante su proceso de selección de personal en la India.
Poco después Fowler sacó "The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development", disponible también en esta página, que viene a tener los mismos contenidos que éste, pero con un título más acertado y bastante más caro.

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Gabriele Mohl

Unterhaltsame, uneingeschränkt zu empfehlende Lektüre für Programmierer!

Reviewed in Germany on March 6, 2007

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Letzten Endes handelt dies Buch über die Problematik, dass man heutzutage als Programmierer sich der billigen Konkurrenz der indischen Programmierer gegenüber sieht. Dieses Buch ist aber meines Erachtens weniger ein Sachbuch, als ein für jeden Programmierer gut lesbares, trotz der Thematik, vergnüglich lesbares Buch.

Dieses Buch schafft einem auch Verständnis für die Position des indischen Programmmierers, der seine Lebensweise, seinen Lebensstil durch seine Arbeit verbessern sucht.

Ich habe ein Patenkind in Indien und habe praktisch als ersten Bericht über Indien dieses Buch gelesen. Es gibt mittlerweise viel Literatur, die über Indien informiert. Nennen möchte ich: "Tanz der Riesen. Indien und China prägen die Welt" von Karl H. Pilny und "Wirtschaftsmacht Indien. Chance und Herausforderung für uns" von Oliver Müller. Diese zwei Bücher informieren mit weitaus mehr Zahlen und harten Fakten über die neuen Wirtschaftsmächte Indien und China als dieses vergnügliche Buch "My Programming Job went to India". Trotzdem möchte ich dieses Buch damit nicht schlecht machen. Ich empfehle es uneingeschränkt jedem Programmierer, der sich ein bisschen Gedanken über unsere sich verändernde Welt machen will. Wer danach aber harte Fakten sucht, sei auf die weiterführenden Bücher hingewiesen.

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Wolfgang L. B.

Absolut empfehlenswert

Reviewed in Germany on February 28, 2006

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Sehr unterhaltsamt geschrieben und trotzdem nicht flach. Einige Tipps klingen zwar zunächst banal, aber man fragt sich doch, warum man trotzdem bisher nicht auf die Idee gekommen ist, sie auch umzusetzen. Ein Buch, dass bei mir einen Motivationsschub ausgelöst hat.

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