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THE WORD OF MOUTH
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Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks is pretty good. There is also the Design of Everyday Things (TDoET) by Don Norman. Structured Design from 1975 by Larry L. Constantine and Ed Yourdon is another excellent book that I am currently reading now.
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Peopleware and Mythical Man-Month are fundamental to understanding larger software projects and teams. They often state obvious things, but I didn’t guess them myself. Mythical Man-Month also provides important historical perspective.
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks * still relevant re: people are the key to getting things done; understand how people work together. https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780201006506
No matter how long you've been a programmer, you're always looking for new ways to hone your craft and learn new techniques. One of the best ways to do that is by reading books on programming—as in, books that are actually about programming. Here's our list of 10 of the best. 1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 2. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship 3. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code 4. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master 5. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability 6. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering 7. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 8. Introduction to Algorithms (The MIT Press) 9. Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) 10. The Art of Computer Programming
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The following is a list of my favorite books on software engineering, cyber-security, and the history of IT business development. Bowden, Mark (2011) Worm: The First Digital World War Brooks, Frederick (1995) Mythical Man-Month, 2nd ed. Christensen, Clayton (1997) Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon (1996) Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas (1999) Pragmatic Programmer MacCormick, John (2012) Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future McConnell, Steve (2004) Code Complete, 2nd ed. Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception Poulsen, Kevin (2011) Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cyber-Crime Underworld Raymond, Eric (2003) Art of Unix Programming Stone, Brad (2013) The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001) Just for Fun: Story of an Accidental Revolutionary Wallace, James and Jim Erickson (1992) Hard Drive: Bill Gates and Making of the Microsoft Empire Williams, Sam (2002) Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software…
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks should be read by everyone, even though it was written in 1975. Some things don't change no matter the technology change. Sometimes I am amazed to have co-worked who have never heard of it.
The Mythical Man-Month - Fred Brooks To all Project Managers & Top Management.
I second that observation. I wish the manager at my day job read ANYTHING, at the very least some informercial-laden industry publication. In my case, I'd like him to read Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month", to make him understand how a programming system costs a lot more than a simple module. Summary: http://javatroopers.com/Mythical_Man_Month.html In second place, I'd place "Peopleware", so he'd understand the importance of communications, and how the current office arrangement is losing the company a lot of money: Summary: http://javatroopers.com/Peopleware.html Amazon link to both: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Ann... (http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959) http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-... (http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-Edition/dp/0932633439)
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I'll just be the first to mention The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month