Recommended reading for the CTO/CIO
Ask your next CTO/CIO candidate how many of the “Must Read” books he or she has read. A seasoned IT executive should be familiar with most of them.
Must reads:
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
- Rapid Development
, by Steve McConnell
- The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition
, by Gerald Weinberg
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition
, by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft))
, by Steve McConnell
- Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition
, by Cem Kaner et al.
Recommended:
- Creating a Software Engineering Culture, by Karl Wiegers
- Quality Software Management: Anticipating Change (Quality Software Management)
, by Gerald Weinberg
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
, by Chris Anderson
Currently in the reading pile:
- Scalable Internet Architectures, by Theo Schlossnagle
- Scalable Web Sites, by Cal Henderson
- Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
, by Michael Nygard