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wonder kid2016-11-18 17:07:00
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wonder kid, 2016-11-18 17:07:00

An analogue of the book "Pragmatic Programmer" for project managers, does it happen?

Good afternoon.
Can anyone recommend a good analogue of the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" but for the project manager?
With "kaizen", "the theory of broken windows", etc.
Of the books I've seen, all are mostly focused either on the technical side of the issue (project management tools, bug trackers, agile, scrum, kanban), or on psychology (identifying the psychotype of employees, and manipulating them accordingly). It feels like it was written by theorists or consultants who themselves never managed real projects, but only taught others how to.
In other words, the impression remains that something important (life experience or something) is missing in these books.
A good example of what I would like to see are some of the chapters in Joel Spolsky (about dog poop; about the best tactics of a project manager, which is to pretend that the most important person in the team is a programmer, and the manager is on their errands, etc. ).
Thanks in advance!

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Maxim Moseychuk, 2016-11-18
@wonder kid

How to herd cats

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Dmitry, 2016-11-18
@EvilsInterrupt

What don't you like about Mythical Man-Month?

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kazmiruk, 2016-11-18
@kazmiruk

www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2449712

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Anton Kostin, 2016-11-24
@anton9

I highly recommend, in addition to all of the above, these two:
Peopleware by Lister, DeMarco
The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
In general, I specifically dedicated a section to this on my blog, if possible a little self-promotion - blog.handsomecake.com/booking-books

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Andrey Pletenev, 2016-11-27
@Andrey_Pletenev

There are 2 problems in the books for you:
I wrote more about comparing books with other learning formats here .
The practice of management is best learned in personal contact with an experienced leader. However, hardly anyone from the RP will agree to spend a lot of personal time on your training. A good compromise between informative text and personal communication are online courses that have a dialogue with a practicing trainer. For example, I teach RP in this way: Text + images / diagrams / graphs + video cases + tasks + dialogue.

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