A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides) - As the updated official standard of the world's leading project management organization, PMBOK® Guide - Third Edition is an essential reference tool for every project management practitioner's library. Earned value is among the topics covered. This link is for purchasing the book.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software - author:Scott Rosenberg; Crown Publications, 2007
The author interweaves the story of a start-up software company with the history of our (endless) attempts to rationalize the process of programming.
Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous “mythical man-month” to Extreme Programming. This book offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind.
One reviewer described it as a great book about team collaboration.
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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - Written by Douglas A. Ebert, McKesson Corporation, and published in the September, 2004 issue of CrossTalk.
This article provides senior managers with a methodology to develop a metrics program that will form a basis for management decisions. It presents a series of questions a senior manager should ask to address business needs, rather than just getting informational briefings.
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