Title :Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Author/s : Watts S. Humphrey, James W. Over
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Category :
Project Management, Process and Best Practices
Review by : Jeanne Boyarsky
Rating : 6 horseshoes
"Leadership, Teamwork and Trust" is the original Watts Humphrey's last book. While I knew both the authors were heavily involved in TSP, I wasn't expecting a book on TSP. You'd think something like that would be mentioned on the cover.
The book has two parts. Nine chapters (160 pages) of examples, points and content. And 5 chapters (144 pages) of appendices about TSP. That's almost half the book! The appendices weren't bad; they just caught me by surprise.
Back to the part of the book that wasn't about TSP. I liked the mix of stories and points. Some stories were like mini-case studies. Some parts really drew me in such as in chapter 4 on how we differ from unskilled laborers and why management really needs to as well. It included the relationship between money/motivation and trust/blame. I also particularly liked chapter 7 on not using metrics against people so as to not taint the data you get back.
Did I mention that part wasn't about TSP. Well, kind of. Many of the examples were from TSP. The implication being that you need TSP to collect data. These points could have been shown as being more broad.
I did like the first part of the book. I'm taking off a lot of points for the strong TSP bias and the fact that it isn't mentioned on the cover or book description.
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in
exchange for writing this review on behalf of CodeRanch.
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