How to lead brilliant developers
summary
Classifies three developer types—idealist, tech‑focused, dissenter—and gives concrete leader actions: for idealists confirm team ideals, capture backlog items in Pivotal Tracker (example: turn “normalize DB / create table template / update jQuery” into tickets), prioritize and iterate so fixes ship; for tech‑focused be explicit and predictable and provide a human‑to‑programmer interface; for dissenters encourage respectful disagreement, seek compromise and mutual purpose. Offers concrete cautionary numbers: Next computer priced $6,500 vs target $2–3k and factory 10,000/month but sold 400, and the Dream Team lost its opening game 54–62.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:14BRILLIANT personality types
- 5:52Design IDEALS of Steve Jobs
- 7:57Design Ideals in the MACINTOSH
- 11:13IDEALISM among programmers
- 15:08Leading Idealists: CONFIRM ideals
- 16:01CAPTURE work to be done
- 17:41PRIORITIZE implementation
- 18:56ITERATE toward the ideal
- 21:07Edison's amazing TECHNICAL focus
- 22:25Edison's less successful PEOPLE skills
- 24:49Tech-focused in INTER-PERSONAL settings
- 26:11Tech-focused with STAKEHOLDERS
- 27:33What if COMMUNICATION is not your skill?
- 29:18Leading tech-focused: Be PRECISE
- 32:04Provide a Human to Programmer INTERFACE
- 35:01DISSENT among programmers
- 37:54Leading Dissenters: Find COMPROMISE
- 40:13CONCLUSION
- 40:51BIBLIOGRAPHY of great books
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