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  • A surprisingly pragmatic book on managing software projects, The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun contains practical suggestions and clear-headed explanations without getting involved into methodologies or buzzword-compliant processes.

    Art of Project Management

    A surprisingly pragmatic book on managing software projects, The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun contains practical suggestions and clear-headed explanations without getting involved into methodologies or buzzword-compliant processes.

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  • Straight from the cover, it’s clear that this is not a usual “software book”. The Best Software Writing I is a collection of weblog posts from 2004, hand picked by Joel Spolsky. This book is a true mirror of the blogging community, displaying all the variety of Web – articles...

    The Best Software Writing I

    Straight from the cover, it’s clear that this is not a usual “software book”. The Best Software Writing I is a collection of weblog posts from 2004, hand picked by Joel Spolsky. This book is a true mirror of the blogging community, displaying all the variety of Web – articles...

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  • Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein is a very interesting study of the crisis decision making process. Klein and his team have “slept in fire stations, observed intensive care units, and ridden in M-1 tanks, U.S. Navy AEGIS cruisers, Blackhawk helicopters and AWACS aircraft”. From that...

    Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

    Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein is a very interesting study of the crisis decision making process. Klein and his team have “slept in fire stations, observed intensive care units, and ridden in M-1 tanks, U.S. Navy AEGIS cruisers, Blackhawk helicopters and AWACS aircraft”. From that...

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