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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law 8 reviews
Lawrence Rosen
Prentice Hall PTR, 2004
Great for reference
+ Before you start a software initiative, read this book.
+ This is the "go-to" reference for OpenSource licensing
+ Must-read for licensors
+ Readable and by a Lawyer.
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The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies: ...And How to Break Them 10 reviews
Jagdish N. Sheth
Wharton School Publishing, 2007
A Critical Look in the Mirror
+ Common Sense
+ Excellent insight!
+ How to identify and avoid being a victim of the creative destruction of capitalism
+ Best corporate review you can find
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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything181 reviews
Guy Kawasaki
Portfolio Hardcover, 2004
More than art, it's pure gold in the palm of your hand!
+ Bravo!
+ What's in it for low tech or no tech startups
+ Great reading!
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Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, ... 22 reviews
Steve McConnell
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Excelente reference book
+ McConnell Does it Again - This is the future of our industry
This is an excellent book for people that want straight facts about the software engineering profession and industry. It is also an excellent source for a plan to understand how to acquire knowledge in search of a better career as a software engineer.
For a long time I tried to find what was the ...
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Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates's Plan to Win the Road Ahead4 reviews
Robert Buderi, Gregory T. Huang
Simon & Schuster, 2006
guanxi (the art of relationships)
+ worthwhile reading on China, Micro$oft or research innovation
+ Essential reading on China, Microsoft, and the future of innovation
I met Buderi and Huang on their book tour, and couldn't wait to get my hands on this book. What a tale they tell, as they show how Microsoft early on, embraced the world of talent coming up through Chinese universities and turned it to the company's advantage. I especially like the stories of how ...
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The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips (Practitioners)10 reviews
Robert P. Colwell
Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2005
How a big project comes together.
+ Good advice and inside view...
+ Project Management Education
+ Solid, practical perspective
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity135 reviews
Alan Cooper
Sams - Pearson Education, 2004
an essential handbook for designing software
+ A Must Read Classic, Albeit with Some Dated Ideas
+ No Cognitive Friction Here..
Cooper's argument in this book is simple: you have to know your users, and you have to understand what they're trying to accomplish with your software. The method that he puts forth for achieving this understanding is personas, richly-described archetypical users.
The book is easy to read and ...
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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed7 reviews
Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Excellent book!
+ A methodology for managing teams and projects.
+ A process to help your teams be more outward looking and aware of its stakeholders
+ Good new insights in teams
+ Looking outward instead of being insular...
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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager28 reviews
Michael Lopp
Apress, 2007
The title should be Managing Software Engineering Humans!
+ Insightful and Enjoyable
Living in a Software Engineering world, this book nailed it. Not everyone gets "1.0 Start-Up Tragedies". Perhaps it's something akin to Katrina. (You had to be there.) Beyond that he does a little physco-analysis of personality work approaches: incrementalist and completionists, manager (north and ...
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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent 21 reviews
Joel Spolsky
Apress, 2007
A perfect reference
Confession: I'm a long time fan of Joel Spolsky and his writing, and this book is no exception.
In usual Joel style, it's a very easy, witty and insightful read. He tell you to set the hiring bar high and shows some simple ways of separating the potentially high performing from those less ...
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Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want28 reviews
Curtis R. Carlson, William W. Wilmot
Crown Business, 2006
A Guidebook for Serious Innovation Practitioners
+ Conference Attendee
+ Business focused "innovation" as opposed to waste of time & money
+ Read the first half
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Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo Books)5 reviews
Alexander R. Galloway
The MIT Press, 2006
A must-have if you're interested in the art, tech, or culture of networks
+ How the idea was born...
+ Computer Science from a Liberal Arts View.
+ Computer Science from a Liberal Arts view.
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)128 reviews
Frederick P. Brooks
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995
Software Development
+ Interesting case study
+ Excellent & Highly Recommended Book
+ Required Reading For Anyone Serious About Software Development
+ seminal classic
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The Best of Technology Writing 2007 (Best of Technology Writing)2 reviews
University of Michigan Press, 2007
Great collections of tech essays.
+ A Great Collection Of Essays From The Blogosphere
Superb collection of tech essays with some emphasis on the information technology/internet side of things. Nicely touches on the human element (social networking) and the changes that connected computers have brought to this aspect of human behavior. Very funny in parts.
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The Art of Project Management (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))47 reviews
Scott Berkun
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
New, better, cheaper edition availalbe
+ Project Management Experience Explainned
+ Good playbook for rookies.
+ Great for enterprise level thinking
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The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity 4 reviews
Morgan Kaufmann, 2000
A Very Inspiring Book
This is the first nerd-book that I've read in a _long_ time that I could call inspiring. It got me back to my roots of computer science and applying Occam's razor to everything I see, think, or do. I only gave this a 4 star because one of the chapters is not congruent with the goals of the book. ...
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The Soul Of A New Machine56 reviews
Tracy Kidder
Back Bay Books, 2000
Start-up culture
+ Engineers are people, too!
+ Excellent View on an Old Topic
+ Good read
+ Tremendous piece of writing.
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Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy4 reviews
Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel
Morgan Kaufmann, 2005
Guide to the Value Created by Free/Open Source Software
+ Open Source for dummies
+ online version
+ sometimes look outside your company
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Microserfs212 reviews
Douglas Coupland
Harper Perennial, 1996
Quick delivery
+ A ggod read
+ `We assume that tomorrow is another world'
+ for software developers/not for software developers
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity135 reviews
Alan Cooper
Sams - Pearson Education, 2004
an essential handbook for designing software
+ A Must Read Classic, Albeit with Some Dated Ideas
+ No Cognitive Friction Here..
Cooper's argument in this book is simple: you have to know your users, and you have to understand what they're trying to accomplish with your software. The method that he puts forth for achieving this understanding is personas, richly-described archetypical users.
The book is easy to read and ...
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