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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
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Publisher's Summary
There's a saying that people don't leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies.
Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management - from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning - and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Will Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management that leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes can apply. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in.
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- Violet
- 05-06-19
Terrible narrator
Sounds like it's being read by a text to speech program. Needs a narrator who can read like a human
28 people found this helpful
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- MsSqwerl
- 06-01-21
Good book, terrible narrator.
No flow, no pauses, just terrible. Alexa would have done a better job narrating it.
5 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-06-19
Grow organization as Engineering Manager
It is not another leadership book, but more how to build and grow organization and what kind of challenges you can face as engineering manager, and how to deal with them.
Great source information and inspiration.
3 people found this helpful
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- Justin T. Hawkins
- 06-04-22
Great content, ruined by a robotic monotoned voice
I love Will Larson, and much of the content in this book and other material. I found myself unable to listen to this for more than a few minutes, because the voice acting is just so bad.
it reads like an instruction manual, by somebody who has no idea what the instructions are building.
therr absolutely needs to be a new edition that brings the material to life rather than killing it.
1 person found this helpful
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- Taras Kunch
- 06-03-21
The book is awesome, but not for listening
The book is really interesting and practical. Reader may treat it as a set of guides. Because of that it's better to read the book than to listen. Also it makes sense to read just parts you are interested in in the particular moment.
1 person found this helpful
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- Aleksandr Litvak
- 13-08-19
Insightful, yet succinct
Great read that covers many topics and leaves the reader yearning for more. Will's list of books and white papers at the end has inspired me to do way more reading.
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- Cliente de Kindle
- 28-01-23
Buenos ejemplos reales sobre software manage net
El autor muy experimentado, estructura su libro en varios temas con ejemplos y vivencias claras acerca de los retos y eventos que de seguro vivimos muchos managers. me agradó la inclusión de temas técnicos y comentarios acerca del uso de tecnologías
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- Hideki Shima
- 31-12-22
Robotic narration
Terrible narration that's almost like text-to-speech. I would recommend buying a book or ebook edition instead.
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- Shine
- 30-12-22
Excellent book read terribly. Please re-record.
This is the most consequential tech-adjacent book I read in '22! As a senior tech IC, this is the best take I could get on organizational stuff. So many insightful points that will keep bringing me back to the book as a reference material. Very appreciative that Will is generous enough to put his raw notes on GitHub!
That said, I regret buying the Audible version. I ignored listening to the sample before purchasing. Narration is quality is _very_ poor. You can hear the narrator breathe in, emphasis is on the wrong words, sentence ends are not distinguished, intonation is off, and the list goes on.
I'm surprised Audible is allowing this narration to be sold despite multiple comments on its low quality.
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- fadamakis
- 30-07-22
Good advice to advance your carrer
Good content. Highly recommend the book but probably the audio format is not the best.
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- Nando
- 25-10-21
is this really a human narrating?
this doesn't feel like a human narrating but a text to speech! No emotion whatsoever.
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- Joe Power
- 14-06-19
Good primer on Systems Engineering Management
Excellent overview of material that's relevant to current dev managers. Let down by robotic sounding narrator who obviously isn't technical, based on pronunciation of some technical terms
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- Alex Brown
- 03-08-22
Good book badly narrated
The book has makes some really good points and has great takeaways for any engineering leader, but it’s narrated so poorly. It sounds like an AI, no personality. It makes it difficult to follow sometimes.
1 person found this helpful