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Book List
I'm interested in reading up on change management, project management, managing staff and managing teams. Here are some books I've had recomended to me in these domains. Sunny Donnenfeld and I are interested in starting an IT book club on campus and some of the books below might be good ones to read in that context.
Change Management (from Mitch Davis)One good book to get you started is the Harvard Business Review on Change. I read all the Harvard Business Review books and subscribe to the magazine. I also read many other books and magazines on leadership, technology, science, marketing, architecture, design and of course Sci Fi. Most of this books only give pieces of information that I must puzzle together.
For real change to happen, you need to go from a place of instability to stability. Creating that instability is fairly easy. Succeeding in that moment is not always as easy. For the client, it needs to hurt less to move forward. I am about creating Chaos so that all options would be better than the one we have today.
Here is a list of books that I enjoyed reading and found something
useful between the covers.
* Cool Books that just inspire and steel you to change things:
Other books:
Projects
Managing People
Book BlogAmazon.com: Books: The Art of Project Management A really well done book on PM for software. Covers a great swath of information giving just enough details about each discipline to build the context you need to understand how it relates to PM. You'll be able to talk to marketing folks or usability experts and not sound like a fool while also knowing how best to use their skills on the project design. A whole bunch of hard learned guidance in one book. Not a cookbook, but a lot of tips and suggestions from someone who clearly knows whereof he speaks. Amazon.com: Books: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity Amazon.com: Books: Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of UsageCentered Design (ACM Press) User Interface design book that argues you should look at what users must do to develop natural flow in your applications. Amazon.com: Books: Slack : Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency An interesting perspective on information workers. Argues that if they are too busy, they don't get as much done. A little bit of a daaa.... but I kept recognizing myself in the examples. A good corrective/reminder. Amazon.com: Books: The One Thing You Need to Know : ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success |
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