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.

Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2004)

The book opens by dissecting survivorship bias, arguing that sheer randomness—rather than skill, foresight, or clear causality—plays the dom...