Agile Estimating & Planning
by Mike Cohn
by Mike Cohn
This book is completely different from other management books, but also seemingly the same. It builds on concepts you definitely know, simple ones, but presents them in an easy-to-follow and highly tactical fashion, one at a time, then brings it all together into one simple but powerful package.
This book is my favorite management book to date. Perhaps it is just me, but this book spoke to me in greater fashion than others. Others had situations that felt familiar, but not exact. This book felt dead on 100% of the time, which made it all the more powerful.
This book focuses near entirely on communcation: Authentic, vulnerable communcation and exactly how to achieve it
If you have a keen interest in Software Architecture, it's nice to have a dictionary.
I read this when trying to get my hands on as much Architecture knowledge as was available. I'd prioritize this lower on the list than most, but its a decent read.
This book provides a lot of data on why major software projects get mis-estimated.