Have you heard of 8th Color? It’s the company which created PullReview, a tool that automates code reviews for Ruby developers using GitHub. Since doing code review is one of the most essential topics covered in my eBook entitled “Memoirs of a Software Team Leader”, I thought that contacting 8th Color might be a good idea. One of the 8th Color founders, Martin Van Aken, was so kind as to read the eBook and write a review.
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I’m happy to announce that the eBook I wrote recently, “Memoirs of a Software Team Leader”, is now a featured book on the Leanpub homepage: Peter Armstrong, Leanpub co-founder, decided that my eBook will make a good fit. That’s great news, because advertising an eBook on one’s own hook is a difficult and time-consuming task. I hope that thanks to Leanpub more people will at least get a chance to hear about the eBook.
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Are you a team leader or want to become one? Great, this eBook is for you! I decided to write “Memoirs of a Software Team Leader” in order to preserve my experience. By reading it, you can save yourself learning the hard way. Some of the topics covered include decomposing requirements into small, comprehensible tasks, visualizing task dependencies, becoming a good leader, doing code review and recruiting developers. I hope you’ll like it!
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