Software Management

Brooks, Frederick P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, (anniversary ed). Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.

DeMarco, Tom, & Lister, Timothy. (2003). Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects. New York: Dorset House.

Kerth, Norman L. (2001). Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews. New York: Dorset House.

Putnam, Lawrence H. and Myers, Ware. (2003). Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management New York: Dorset House.

Yourdon, Edward. (1997). Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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The Five Core Metrics:
"People, working at some level of productivity, produce a quantity of function or a work product at a level of reliability by the expenditure of effort over a time."
- Putnam & Myers