Joel Spolsky’s Management Training Program
November 22nd, 2005 • Related • Filed Under
Joel Spolsky just released the first cut of books for his Software Management Training Program. There’s a good mix of product design books along with a lot of company specifc (Dell, Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Amazon, etc.) text. He’s also thrown in a good mix of general MBA texts (Getting to Yes, The Goal, etc.)
Here’s how I score out on the curriculum.
Books I have read (or at least own):
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Getting to Yes
- Crossing the Chasm
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Growing a Business
- Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing
- Version Control with Subversion
- The Non-Designer’s Design Book
- Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- The Macintosh Way
- Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
- Accidental Empires
- The Goal
- Microserfs
- The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
- Revolution in The Valley
I would also add the following books to his list:
- When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Understanding Comics
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- Co-Opetition : A Revolution Mindset That Combines Competition and Cooperation : The Game Theory Strategy That’s Changing the Game of Business
- The Soul Of A New Machine
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
- The Perfect Store: Inside eBay
Of the remaining books, these interest me the most:
- The Little Red Book of Selling
- The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The PayPal Wars; Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
- Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
- Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
- Ben & Jerry’s: The Inside Scoop : How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
- The Product Marketing Handbook for Software
What would you add or remove?
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