Team Geek

About the Book: Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others In a perfect world, software engineers who produce the best codeare the most successful. But in our perfectly messy world, successalso depends on how you work with people to get your job done. In this highly entertaining book, Brian Fitzpatrick and BenCollins-Sussman cover basic patterns and anti-patterns for workingwith other people, teams, and users while trying to developsoftware. This is valuable information from two respected softwareengineers whose popular series of talks-including "Working withPoisonous People"-has attracted hundreds of thousands offollowers. Writing software is a team sport, and human factors have as muchinfluence on the outcome as technical factors. Even if you've spentdecades learning the technical side of programming, this bookteaches you about the often-overlooked human component. By learningto collaborate and investing in the "soft skills" of softwareengineering, you can have a much greater impact for the same amountof effort. Contents Chapter 1 The Myth of the Genius Programmer Chapter 2 Building an Awesome Team Culture Chapter 3 Every Boat Needs a Captain Chapter 4 Dealing with Poisonous People Chapter 5 The Art of Organizational Manipulation Chapter 6 Users Are People, Too Appendix Epilogue Appendix Further Reading About the Authors: Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman Brian Fitzpatrick leads Google's Data Liberation Front andTransparency Engineering teams and has previously led Google'sProject Hosting and Google Affiliate Network teams. He cofoundedGoogle's Chicago engineering office and serves as both thoughtleader and internal advisor for Google's open data efforts. Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the founding developers of theSubversion version control system, led Google's Project Hostingteam, and now manages the engineering team for the Google AffiliateNetwork. He cofounded Google's engineering office in Chicago andported Subversion to Google's