Dr. Stanier - Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Needs

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Anything of worth is rarely achieved alone. The main actor is always surrounded by a diligent and capable supporting cast, able to make the performance that much better.

Id like to thank everyone that I have worked with at Brandwatch over the last eight years. You are all incredibly smart and ambitious people that have transformed a little technology company in a quaint seaside town into a global success. Im fortunate that I get to work with all of you every single day. I always learn something new and see different perspectives other than my own. After all, you all encouraged me to start writing a modest blog on this subject in the first place, and look where thats gotten us.

A special thanks to those that have managed me over the yearsFabrice Retkowsky, Dave Jones, and Chris Binghamfor giving me the opportunity to become a manager and then to keep growing, growing, and growing. Additional thanks must be given to everybody that Ive been lucky enough to have report to me. Thats now too many to list! You let me practice being a manager for real, enabling me to become better at all of the skills that Ive written about in this book, to the point that I can share them with the wider world.

Naomi Trickey must be thanked for graciously letting me write about the competency tracks and the accompanying career development exercises that she created collaboratively with Amy Collins. I hope that Ive done them justice and that others around the world will now see their huge benefit.

My publisher, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, has been fantastic to work with. From the pitch through to the final product, I have felt supported and inspired to do more. Adaobi Obi Tulton, my development editor, has been instrumental at getting to the heart of the narrative and keeping me on the straight and narrow. I couldnt have done it without her.