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Practical Project Management : Restoring Quality to DP Projects and Systems
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Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
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More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit
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Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
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The E-myth Revisited
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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4.10 avg rating — 261,107 ratings
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,876 ratings
score: 92,
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Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 91,
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Why Does Software Cost So Much?: And Other Puzzles of the Information Age
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3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 778 ratings
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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The Deadline
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4.15 avg rating — 2,527 ratings
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The Psychology of Computer Programming
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4.07 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process
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4.06 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
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3.92 avg rating — 4,252 ratings
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Joel on Software
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More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and ... or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
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Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers
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3.47 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
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4.25 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 124,241 ratings
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Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
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4.22 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
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Kim Malone Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 54,636 ratings
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
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Jake Knapp (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 23,159 ratings
score: 74,
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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4.26 avg rating — 49,201 ratings
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