The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

by Christopher Duncan

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590596241
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	01/26/2006
Series:	Expert's Voice Series
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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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Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
For years, The Career Programmer has been the definitive guide for programmers who want to succeed in the workplace. It’s still that. But in today’s age of outsourcing, when you’re lucky to even have a pointy-haired boss, it’s more. This Second Edition is a terrific guide to getting hired, evading age discrimination, even hanging out your own shingle and “flying solo.”

Christopher Duncan’s the same joy to read as ever: wry, sometimes flat-out funny, always real. You can tell he’s been there. Is there. You can tell it when he’s writing about wrangling corporate bureaucracies, or managing your time, or estimates, or requirements, or QA. You can tell it when he’s writing about resumes, job interviewing, or overcoming fear of change. If you want to take control of your programming career, instead of griping about it (or mourning it), read this book. Bill Camarda, from the March 2006 Read Only

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