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Bezig met laden... The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (editie 2019)door James G. Skakoon (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkUnwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition door W. J. King
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Short and sweet. It's amazing it doesn't sound more absurdly old. ( ) I am a software developer, I really appreciated this book, and I wish I had been aware of it when I started my career (I am about 10 years in now) Dunno if I would have listened, but having stumbled around in the dark for a decade, I found its advice on employee and mentor temperament to be really valuable, and the latest editions cut out the stuff that I feel doesn't age well or account for some of the changes in what is considered professionalism in 2010s software development. I am very much appreciating its advice on how to be a senior/manager because that is probably something I'm going to have to start thinking about soon at this point in my career. It's a quick read and a clear easy one to digest. It can't really help you if the people around you aren't producing a healthy and productive workplace environment (something like How F*cked is Your Management or The Phoenix Project or The Goal might be able to help there) but if you have a general feeling of comfort that you are in a generally supportive and reasonable environment with _some_ kind of structure, this book will help a lot. It will help a lot in structure-less places too, but the book goes for a slower place than necessarily appropriate for a startup where everyone is expected to show leadership and responsibilities are ill-defined. It would still be good information to have though, even if it has to be adapted to one's situation a bit. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Some years ago the author became very much impressed with the fact, which can be observed in any engineering organization, that the chief obstacles to the success of individual engineers or of the group comprising a unit were of a personal and administrative rather than a technical nature. It was apparent that both the author and his associates were getting into much more trouble by violating the unwritten laws of professional conduct than by committing technical sins against the well-documented laws of science. Since the former appeared to be indeed unwritten at that time, as regards any adequate and convenient text, the following "laws" were originally formulated and collected into a sort of scrapbook, to provide a set of "house rules", or a professional code, for a design-engineering section of a large manufacturing organization. Although they are admittedly fragmentary and incomplete, they are offered here for whatever they may be worth to younger men just starting their careers, and to older men who know these things perfectly well but who all too often fail to apply them in practice. Just a few points should be emphasized: None of these "laws" is theoretical or imaginary, and however obvious and trite they may appear, their repeated violation is responsible for much of the frustration and embarrassment to which engineers everywhere are liable. In fact this audiobook is primarily a record, derived from direct observation over a period of 17 years, of the experience of four engineering departments, three of them newly organized and struggling to establish themselves by the trial-and-error method. It has, however, been supplemented and confirmed by the experience of others as gathered from numerous discussions, lectures, and the literature, so that it most emphatically does not reflect the unique experience or characteristics of any one organization. Furthermore, many of these rules are generalizations to which exceptions will occur in special circumstances. There is no thought of urging a slavish adherence to rules and red tape, for there is no substitute for judgment, and at times vigorous individual initiative is needed to cut through formalities in an emergency. But in many respects these laws are like the basic laws of society; they cannot be violated too often with impunity, notwithstanding striking exceptions in individual cases. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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