Leaders & Software Engineers: Communicate and Motivate Without Speaking in Code

by Charles E. Weindorf

Overview

You can inspire your team of software engineers to think optimistically, adopt change, and reach for strategic success—if you speak their language.

Seeing complex code in your mind is the great gift of a talented software engineer. Conversely, it can also limit the ability to communicate information in a less technical and straightforward way. When talking with management, great engineers might as well be speaking an alien language.

In Leaders & Software Engineers, IT Director and Chief Software Engineer Charles Weindorf provides the Rosetta Stone for communicating to engineers with stories, analogies, and humor to encourage excellence in your team. Discover how to deliver storytelling concepts that hit the mark and incite change in your highly logical team with this guide!

You'll learn:

• Communication strategies for the four common engineer job personalities: the Genius, the All-Star, the Introvert, and the Uncommon Sense.
• Leadership skills beyond Scrum and agile systems to improve the speed, simplicity, and quality of project delivery.
• Tips to tackle technological and organizational change to promote an openminded mindset in your team.
• Ways to bridge the gap so experienced employees share company culture and new employees share energetic ideas.
• How to instill security and ethic responsibility in developers working in a digital age of unlimited data access.

Encourage your team to succeed with an optimistic tone, a good dose of humor, and a touch of irony. Get Leaders & Software Engineers now and stop speaking in code!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164429935
Publisher:	Mudsox Publishing
Publication date:	03/29/2021
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Charles Weindorf is a retired IT Director and Chief Engineer with nearly 40 years of experience in software engineering. At Erie Insurance, he served in every possible technical and supervisory role, where he encouraged software engineers to understand their responsibilities, see their value, adopt change, and focus on future direction. With stories, humor, and recollections of his roots as a young engineer, he influenced the next generation of software engineers to excel in their craft. Learn more at www.leadingsoftwareengineers.com.

Table of Contents

PEOPLE

The Engineer Personality

Genius: Keeping It Simple

All-Stars: Loving the Spotlight

Introverts: Do Not Tap on the Glass

Uncommon Sense: A Special Gift

RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Is THE Goal

Nonfunctional Requirements Focus

Ethics: A Key Responsibility

Estimation: Never Accurate

Accounting for Time

Education: Ignorance Costs a Lot

CULTURE

Oxymoron One: Engineer Communication

Optimism Versus Pessimism

Experience Versus New Techniques

The Old Guard Versus New Engineers

Oxymoron Two: Engineer Communication

LEADERSHIP

Encouraging Engineers

Change Is Awesome, Except for Engineers

Motivation by Leaders

Leadership: Mining Gold

Future Trends