Archive for the ‘Books ("Best of")’ Category

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.

An interesting post on the Joel On Software site:

By Joel Spolsky

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program – Joel on Software.

The management training program we’re starting up here at Fog Creek will take about three years and will be relatively intensive. Among other things, there will be a required reading list consisting of about 75 books (we’re working on the theory here of one book every two weeks). We’re trying to collect a combination of

  • the best business books of all time
  • the best software management books of all time