In a previous post I noted that Joel Spolsky is putting together a management training program for his firm that will include a required reading list consisting of about 75 books (to be read at a rate of about one every two weeks).  As I noted in my last post, I found  many “old friends” on Joel’s list but was surprised at some of the titles he’s included, so I’ve broken his list down to two parts here – those I have read and those that are now on my own “wish list” complete with some “rankings” for comparison purposes.

Books in my personal library:

Frederick P. Brooks
Amazon Goodreads Average: 4.07 My Rating: 3 stars
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Classic concepts from the book include:
9 women can’t make a baby in a month.
Adding programmers to a stressed project almost always yields negative returns.

Competing on Internet Time -

The Inmates are Running the Asylum -

The Design of Everyday Thing -

Breaking Windows -

In Search of Stupdity -

Startup -

Peopleware – Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

The Macintosh Way – Guy Kawasaki

The Secrets of Consulting – Gerald Weinberg

Rules for Revolutionaries – Guy Kawasaki

Positioning – Al Ries and Jack Trout

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Ries & Jack Trout

The Goal – Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Critical Chain – Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Slack -

The Art of the Start -

The Business of Software -

Making the Technical Sale -

Selling Air -

Crossing the Chasm – Geoffry Moore

Four Days With Dr. Deming -

The Tipping Point -Malcom Gladwell

High Stakes No Prisoners -

The E Myth Revisited -

The One Minute Manager – Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

Getting to Yes -

Influence The Psychology of Persuasion –

The Portable MBA –

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Books I haven’t yet read:

Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug

Growing A Business – Paul Hawken

Dec is Dead, Long Live Dec -

Applied Cryptology -

Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing -

Testing Computer Software -

Design for Community -

Subversion -

The Non-Designers’ Design Book -

The Pragmatic Programmer -

Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations -

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering -

The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison -

Just for Fun -

On a Roll -

The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest -

Random Excess -

Show Stopper!

The Leap

Digital Hustlers -

Microsoft Rebooted -

Speeding the Net -

aol.com -

dot.bomb -

The New New Things -

Burn Rate – Michael Wolf

Accidental Empires -

Revolution in the Valley -

The Anatomy of Buzz -

Death March -

The Manager Pool -

Ben & Jerry’s: The Inside Scoop -

Microserfs – Douglas Coupland

A Random Walk Down Wall Street -

21 Dog Years -

In$ide Intuit -

Direct From Dell -

Amazonia -

The PayPal Wars -

The Search -

The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR -

Essentials of Accounting -

Geeks -

Little Red Book of Selling -

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