Will Larson's Elegant Puzzle: Mastering the Art of Engineering Management

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This puzzle is designed to challenge and engage the minds of engineering management professionals. With its elegant design and intricate complexity, it is an ideal tool for honing problem-solving skills and developing critical thinking. Perfect for stimulating the minds of engineering management experts, this puzzle is sure to provide hours of stimulating entertainment.
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Details of Will Larson's Elegant Puzzle: Mastering the Art of Engineering Management

  • Decision-Making & Problem Solving: Decision-Making & Problem Solving
  • ISBN-13 ‏ ‎: 978-1732265189
  • Best Sellers Rank: #53 in Business Decision Making #90 in Decision-Making & Problem Solving #453 in Leadership & Motivation
  • Hardcover ‏ ‎: 288 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ ‎: 10.6 ounces
  • Leadership & Motivation: Leadership & Motivation
  • ISBN-10 ‏ ‎: 1732265186
  • Language ‏ ‎: English
  • Publisher ‏ ‎: Stripe Press
  • Customer Reviews: 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,143 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when.execute { if { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative { if { ue.count || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when.execute { A.declarative{ if { ue.count || 0) + 1); } }); });
  • Business Decision Making: Business Decision Making
  • Dimensions ‏ ‎: 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches

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Amazon Customer: The order was sent promptly and the package is in good condition. The condition of the book is good.

United States on Feb 08, 2024

Amazon Customer: Informações atualizadas, recomendo a leitura

Brazil on Jan 07, 2024

Amazon Customer: I have a feeling this book is composition of author's articles which makes reading unpleasant. The content has great value and in most cases is targeted to middle managers

United States on Sep 28, 2023

J. Pruetting: I've ordered the hardcover version of this book twice, once in 2019 and once in 2022. The older book from 2019 looks and feels like a really high quality book; it's beautiful. The book from 2022 looks like a cheap copy. It went from having a smooth, subtle crosshatch texture with off-white and subdued black on the cover to a rough texture with stark white and pure black. The pages also feel thinner and cheaper as well.

United States on Jun 21, 2022

Tamil Selvan: Must read for managers who wanna shift from bringing problem to the table to solving them. Because this book builds awareness around every EMs problems in such a simple language. Liked it so much

India on Apr 26, 2022

Kindle Customer: The book is an extensive, hands-on collection of practices for engineering managers at different stages of their career and their toolkit evolving with them as time goes by. It also gives a sense of the various constraints that apply at different organization sizes and how to work with (or around) them.

Netherlands on Feb 08, 2021

berlin-mitte: When I started reading this book I felt delighted and on the path to somewhere good. I then started noticing that the info graphics took more energy to process than they provided value for, then the duplication in content, and the lack of proper editing: it started to feel like a lack of respect towards the reader and like art out of place.
I noticed I had wanted this book to be great and to lead me and that I had found something shiny, with questionable messages at times, with lose pieces glued together, instead. If you turn your blog into a book, you want to add a plot, not just a table of contents. Otherwise it's a blog on paper disguised as a book.
I consider it sad that Will considers migrations "the sole scalable fix to tech debt": it is not a fix but rather selling "giving up on it" for a fix — very convenient for management — while an actual fix needs change in culture on a non-technical level. What Will says regarding "work the policy, not the exceptions" fails to recognize that people vary greatly in needs.
Overall, the book was interesting to read but I sure hope that future managers will not copy from Will, blindly.

Germany on Aug 19, 2020

Simon NINON: I bought this book without too many expectations: most management books are usually either poorly written, either full of banalities, either too abstract.

However, this book is one of the rare excellent ones, and most probably a must-read for any manager (probably even outside tech).
I'm a junior manager and I initially thought the book was not a good fit for me as I started to read the first chapter: this book is written by an upper-manager and talks about many problems related to upper-management that a junior manager does not encounter himself, especially in the first two chapters.

However, I kept reading and it was the right thing to do: the book is incredibly complete and covers everything. Many points are actually relevant whether you are a junior manager or a more experienced one. For the other parts more related to upper-management (for example, restructuring a department), those are still very interesting and eye-opening to read for a junior manager: you get to better understand what your own manager is doing now, or what challenges he will face soon. It truly allows you to connect the dots and reflect more about your own company...

United States on Jan 26, 2020

Eryx: Great book for developing managers.

Mexico on Dec 16, 2019

Gergely Orosz: An Elegant Puzzle is to date the most hands-on perspective on engineering management within a high-growth, tech-first organization, that I have read. It's a long overdue book for engineering managers and leads. I like how it takes an engineering-focused view on management, instead of taking a management-focused view on software engineering, that other books on this topic have.

Having read many management and engineering management books, what set Will's book apart is it starts right where the others end. An Elegant Puzzle wastes no time - especially not in the beginning - on covering the generic manager's toolkit, such as 1:1s, giving feedback, team building, which many other books devote a good chunk of their content. Instead, it talks about the engineering pain points that come with a high-growth organization and team, once management fundamentals are in place. What to do when our systems are slowing us down, but we have too many migrations? What's a good way to pay down tech debt? How do we say no, when there is so much work, but not enough people? How do we grow seniority evenly across the team?

The tone of the book is casual: it feels like...

United States on Aug 03, 2019



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Decision-Making & Problem Solving Decision-Making & Problem Solving
ISBN-13 ‏ ‎ 978-1732265189 978-1976182198 978-1948836951
Best Sellers Rank #53 in Business Decision Making #90 in Decision-Making & Problem Solving #453 in Leadership & Motivation #6 in Product Management #27 in Job Interviewing #61 in Job Hunting #11 in Business Project Management #15 in Starting a Business #105 in Entrepreneurship
Hardcover ‏ ‎ 288 pages 240 pages
Item Weight ‏ ‎ 10.6 ounces 14.4 ounces 14 ounces
Leadership & Motivation Leadership & Motivation
ISBN-10 ‏ ‎ 1732265186 1976182190 1948836955
Language ‏ ‎ English English English
Publisher ‏ ‎ Stripe Press CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform BenBella Books
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Dimensions ‏ ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches 5.5 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches 6.25 x 0.86 x 9.31 inches
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