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Ask Your Developer
- How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Jeff Lawson
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's Summary
Jeff Lawson, developer turned CEO of Twilio (one of Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2021), creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation.
From banking and retail to insurance and finance, every industry is turning digital, and every company needs the best software to win the hearts and minds of customers. The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition?
Software developers are sought after, highly paid, and desperately needed to compete in the modern, digital economy. Yet most companies treat them like digital factory workers without really understanding how to unleash their full potential. Lawson argues that developers are the creative workforce who can solve major business problems and create hit products for customers—not just grind through rote tasks. From Google and Amazon, to one-person online software companies—companies that bring software developers in as partners are winning. Lawson shows how leaders who build industry changing software products consistently do three things well. First, they understand why software developers matter more than ever. Second, they understand developers and know how to motivate them. And third, they invest in their developers' success.
As a software developer and public company CEO, Lawson uses his unique position to bridge the language and tools executives use with the unique culture of high performing, creative software developers. Ask Your Developer is a toolkit to help business leaders, product managers, technical leaders, software developers, and executives achieve their common goal—building great digital products and experiences.
How to compete in the digital economy? In short: Ask Your Developer.
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- James Sneddon
- 11-01-2023
Outstanding, thanks Jeff!
An Outstanding book on how to promote developers,
A must read for any technology entrepreneur.
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- Chris L.
- 13-09-2021
Nothing tangible
This book is mostly just looking back at history and telling stories with no actual tangible takeaways that are usable other then “developers good everything else bad”.
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- Rod
- 08-08-2021
We get your point after Chapter One
A chapter in someone else's book would have bee sufficient given the limit of what this guy has to say. What he said was interesting enough but after the first 50 pages, you've kinda made your point.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-12-2021
Two and Half Stars
It contained a handful of useful takeaways but it was essentially a public relations exercise.
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- AntMc
- 10-12-2022
Great read for SaaS business readers
As a leader at a startup SaaS company, this book provided excellwnt suggestions on the approach one shouid have to drive effective performance from the most critical resource - developers. It challenged me to take a software approach to. solving any type of problem, a paradigm shift for those of us coming from a more hardware dominant background.
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- TohirT
- 03-03-2022
A must for any company that manages developers
This book was eye opening on the lack of some of the internal processes in my company. We made so many mistakes from this book. I wish I had it 3-4 years ago!
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- Jonathan Hessing
- 08-01-2022
From a non-dev tech entrepreneur:
This book is not only, the first I’ve ever written a review for, but also a mind-shifting encyclopedia. Something that I will refer back to on how to build great teams and make great products.
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- Antonio
- 03-02-2023
Informative
The book was fantastic, I would highly recommend any software engineers or managers read this.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-01-2023
Software - most powerful technology ever created
Jeff's insights align so closely with my own observations and realizations, which for many years were viewed with suspicion by others. His book provides a wonderful confirmation that software creation (contrary to popular belief) is, in fact, a deeply creative process. When viewed from this perspective, the standard leadership and management dogma taught by most business schools is inadequate to lead and direct value creation not just for founders and investors but also for society in general. I have often wondered how much of the traditional creative arts leadership and management dogma has been studied in detail correlating dogmatic principles of this domain to specifically the software creation leadership domain but also more generally to the innovation/invention leadership and management domains?
I believe people in general are intrinsically creative, but sadly, our current societal construct appears to be designed to suppress and inhibit the expression of this creative instinct.
Software creation provides an avenue for such creative expression, and the distributed compute capacity (cloud infrastructure platforms) consumption models have exponentially amplified the accessibility to this creative domain. But are we doing enough to popularize the software creation domain as a creative domain that enables almost everyone to express their intrinsic creative nature?
I hope that works like this will provide the creative spark to fuel ongoing transformation of the traditional leadership and management dogma to fully embrace and stimulate the creative capability of every individual.
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- Matt Giannoni
- 02-01-2022
Great book. Look into the future.
Great insight into what is already here and what is coming. All companies will have to lean into this thought process. Jeff did a great job performing the book but also laying out each thought process clearly and concisely. Very insightful and his company sounds very interesting.
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- Gary Daemer
- 20-11-2021
great insights to how a development organization s
The book gave great insights into how you should run a developer focused SAAS type product...p The one thing I do get out of these books is just some helpful insight on how to streamline your business
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- Jennifer McMenamy
- 02-09-2021
Amazing book
Well written, expertly narrated, and very inspirational and educational for everyone in the software industry, and for every other industry that is dependent on software in one way or another.
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- Jeff/Sheila Kruesel
- 24-06-2021
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I enjoyed this book very much. I have been in technology sales leadership for more than 20 years and never made the connection between the C-suite executives and how that translates with the builders of digital transformation making that happen. Ask Your Developer is a must read (or listen).
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- B. Hockley
- 03-09-2022
lots of wisdom
Anyone wishing to start a software company or improve the operation of an existing company involved in any way with software delivery is bound to find some interesting food for thought here.
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- Emma
- 19-03-2022
A modern business bible
An absolute must listen/read for any CEO, Executive, Director and those with aspirations of. However technical or not you may be.
I purchased with the hope of addressing a cavernous language barrier that exists between marketing (my team) and the tech/data department in a large ecom business.
Interestingly, this book turned out to be something else entirely; I am admittedly still working through my marketing-data language challenge to some degree, yet what a pleasant surprise this book was.
This, is a book about modern business strategy.
The Industrial Age is over. DE&I, purpose and sustainability are shaping business strategy, Chief People Officer is a real role, movements like Black Lives Matter and Me-Too have empowered the workforce to finally take a stand and Gen-Z now make up the majority of them.
And Data is the lifeblood of business.
The later is what this book is about.
Not generating it, no every business does that. What matters is how it connects, how it flows.
Each department is a vital organ, each generates and has the potential to consume shedloads of data every day.
But this means nothing if you don’t have the right veins. The right flow of information between them, the fuel for modern business operations.
The dependency on co-operation in modern business is unfathomable. Those to succeed will be those who pull this off. The ones that lead a motivated workforce to build something amazing together. Retaining the same soul as the business scales.
This book is a guide in successfully structuring an organisation. It’s about setting up an organisation framework that gets the most out of people. Every business needs to operate like a tech company now.
Todays workforce don’t give a crap if you’re the CEO or the janitor. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, and now they are empowered enough to demand it. Make them happy. Build an environment where people are motivated to succeed, AND (with the help of this book) the infrastructure that enables them to do that.
There remains a large, and slowly declining number of executive dinosaurs in powerful positions who believe that hard lines and hierarchy is what drives business success; “cut spending to drive profits.”
Are you one of them?
Reducing resource, technology investments or marketing spend will not save the bottom line. It can only end in downward spiral. Instead motivate employees to do more with less. Make their work-lives meaningful, give them a sense of purpose, of doing something good, building something real.
Read this book and learn how to give employees the tools they need to succeed. When they succeed, the business succeeds.
You will be rewarded.. or you will be left behind.
The digital era has dawned my friend. Buy this bloody book and get on with it.
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- Paulski
- 27-05-2021
Share this book with everyone..
Share this book with everyone who is leading any aspect of a software product. As a software engineering leader I can say Jeff nails the business case, knowledge and attitude necessary to enable creative engineers to deliver their best work. Thank you Jeff on behalf of all software engineers!
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- CMOS
- 04-02-2021
This is a brilliant book, buy it now
Whether you are a seasoned founder, or just setting out on your journey with developers, this book is a must read. The fact that it is read by the author really helps as his enthusiasm and natural passion for the subject really come across. As a founder who has had the privilege of working with some amazing developers over the years I cannot recommend this book too highly. If you are part of an organisation that does not work with developers in the ways described in this book then change, right now. You will be astounded by the change in your team. Great work @jeffiel
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