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Alistair Cockburn is an American computer scientist, known as one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development. He cosigned (with 16 others) the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
This is a hard-to-approach book. It's both practical, going pretty deep in programming, but is also philosophical and deals with project management.
I suggest it to any advanced developer/architect and technical project managements who want to have a deeper thought about how to really survive projects.
Even if the book is 18 years old, I found it really interesting.
Because of its "age", and after the Agile Manifesto and all the movements/frameworks/practices which came afterwards, some ideas don't look the best ones nowadays. Despite that, I think it's a book worthy reading :-)