Monday, June 21, 2010

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Team (Second Edition) - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

Undoubtedly, a masterpiece in software engineering management literature. However, something makes you wonder if these aspects are so well known why is software industry yet to learn from it if the book is available for almost two decades. I feel the acceptance of management to the concepts are so radically different that the management finds it hard to accept in the long run.

Overall it's a book that must be read by all the people working in any form of high technology development process.

Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman: Richard Feynmann (1985)

A maverick!!! That is what you feel when you read the book. A person who does not agree to anything that does not meet his line of work or t...