Craig fires some questions at Ron Lichty, co-author of “Managing the Unmanageable” and the “Study of Product Team Performance“:

• Author of machine Language programming books “Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language” and “Programming the 65816“
• Managing the Finder team at Apple – hired for stellar C++ coding ability and customer empathy
• Software development is a team sport – including QA, a dedicated product manager / product owner and designers
• After Dark and Flying Toasters at Berkeley Systems
• “Managing the Unmnageable” is 9 chapters and around 300 rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom (the creamy centre), the tools used to manage software development teams plus the authors own insights
• There were very few books (7 at the time) on managing software developers (unlike project management and agile)
• Fred Brooks – “The Mythical Man-Month“
• Situational Leadership – opens your…