 | The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Buy new: £13.79 / Used from: £7.52 This book layed out foundations for most of the later writing on engineering and most of the literature comes back to the fundamental problems identified here. An enjoyable read.
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 | The Art of Project Management (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Scott Berkun
Buy used from: £28.32 Great book about managing software engineering process - with focus on 'soft' issues and insight into Microsoft ways of doing things
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 | Principles of Software Engineering Management by Tom Gilb
Buy new: £37.74 / Used from: £0.72 Solid and quite technical advice on evolutionary delivery; this man defined agile before the term was (mis)used wholesale
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 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco
Buy used from: £51.87 A complement to Berkun covering people-related aspects of delivery. Some unique insights, but also lots of tiresome rants blaming 'senior managers' for many ills in delivery
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 | Systems Engineering: Coping with Complexity by Richard Stevens
Buy new: £29.49 / Used from: £51.64 Have not read this one yet, but it is supposed to be good
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 | The Art of Systems Architecting by Mark W. Maier
Buy used from: £34.06 Rechtin is one of the first thinkers on the subject of systems architecture and more importantly was the lead architect on some really scary big projects
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 | Death March (Yourdon Press Series) by Edward Yourdon
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £12.00 A good all-round perspective on 'big and scary' projects
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 | Show-Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by G.Pascal Zachary
Buy used from: £2.69 A real-world story on madness that must have been development of windows NT. If you have done a cradle-to-grave project of this size you will appreciate the personal stories described here
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 | Enterprise Security Architecture: A Business-Driven Approach by John Sherwood
Buy new: £36.80 / Used from: £42.43 |
 | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley signature series) by Martin Fowler
Buy new: £21.49 / Used from: £19.99 |
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