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Joel Spolsky's "Fog Creek Software Management Training Program"

A reading list for the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program.

(found at: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBACurriculum.html)

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1. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition
by Frederick P. Brooks
 
2. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)
by Steve Krug
 
3. Growing a Business
by Paul Hawken
 
4. DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
by Edgar H. Schein
 
5. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition
by Bruce Schneier
 
6. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
by Philip Greenspun
 
7. Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition
by Cem Kaner
 
8. Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places
by Derek M. Powazek
 
9. Version Control with Subversion
by C. Michael Pilato
 
10. The Non-Designer's Design Book, Second Edition
by Robin Williams
 
11. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by Andrew Hunt
 
12. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
by Robert D. Austin
 
13. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
by Robert L. Glass
 
14. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
 
15. Competing On Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape And Its Battle With Microsoft
by Michael A. Cusumano
 
16. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition)
by Alan Cooper
 
17. The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
 
18. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
by Mike Wilson
 
19. Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
by David Bank
 
20. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds
 
21.
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On a Roll From Hot Dog Buns to High Tech
by Howard Jonas
 
22. First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest:, The : A Silicon Valley Novel
by Po Bronson
 
23.
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Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel
by Ross Laver
 
24. Show Stopper! Cloth: THE BREAKNECK RACE TO CREATE WINDOWS NT AND THE NEXT GENERATION AT MICROSOFT
by G. Pascal Zachary
 
25. The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush
by Tom Ashbrook
 
26. Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley
by Casey Kait
 
27. In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters
by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman
 
28. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
by Jerry Kaplan
 
29. Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.
by Tom Demarco
 
30.
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The MacIntosh Way
by Guy Kawasaki
 
31. Microsoft Rebooted: How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Reinvented Their Company
by Robert Slater
 
32. Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft
by Joshua Quittner
 
33. AOL.com
by Kara Swisher
 
34. dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath
by J. David Kuo
 
35. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis
 
36. Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
by Michael Wolff
 
37. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
by Robert X. Cringely
 
38. Revolution in the Valley
by Andy Hertzfeld
 
39. The Anatomy of Buzz: How to Create Word of Mouth Marketing
by Emanuel Rosen
 
40. Death March, Second Edition
by Edward Yourdon
 
41. Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
by Gerald M. Weinberg
 
42. Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
by Guy Kawasaki
 
43. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition
by Al Ries
 
44. The Manager Pool: Patterns for Radical Leadership
by Don Sherwood Olson
 
45. Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
by Fred Lager
 
46. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries
 
47. The Goal
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
 
48. Critical Chain
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
 
49. Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland
 
50. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
by Tom Demarco
 
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