Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Kevlin Henney for coming up with the idea for the original title of this book, which was Notes to a Software Team Leader. Later I changed the title because the book now included more than just notes, but that spirit remains in the second part of the book. You can reach Kevlin at www.curbralan.com.

Thank you, early beta reviewers of this book’s original digital edition—especially Ofer Zelig, Leif Eric Fredheim, Mauricio Diazorlich, and Eric Potter—for providing many insightful and helpful ideas and corrections.

A big thank goes you to the early purchasers of this book when it was still in its infancy at leanpub.com, before it was picked up by Manning. They are the reason this book was finished. And thank you leanpub.com for showing another way to write a book in a lean/agile way.

Thank you, the people at Manning: publisher Marjan Bace and everyone on the editorial and production teams, including Janet Vail, Mary Piergies, Tiffany Taylor, Dottie Marsico, Sean Gillhoolley, Katie Tennant, and many others who worked behind the scenes.

Finally, thanks go to the amazing group of technical peer reviewers led by Ozren Harlovic: Matt Belanger, Jeroen Benckhuijsen, Art Bergquist, Ali Berkol, Alessandro Campeis, Maria Gemini, Karl Geoghegan, Christopher Haupt, Andy Kirsch, Edgar Knapp, Antti Koivisto, Shaun Lippy, Sune Lomholt, Ashwin Mhatre, Tim Moore, Ferdinando Santa-croce, Jonathan Sharley, Ivo Štimac, and Ian de Villiers.