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By Edward Cone on 2009-05-05
Successful projects require big-picture vision, attention to detail, and persistence. Failures, meanwhile, can be highly instructive. These books show how technology jobs bring out the best and the worst in people.
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The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Back Bay Books, 2000 (first published 1981) The Pulitzer Prize-winner about minicomputer design at Data General set the standard for IT books.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg Crown, 2007 Does for software what Kidder did for hardware (see our interview with Rosenberg at go.cioinsight.com/Rosenberg).
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995 (first published 1975) A fabled IBM engineer explains why adding more people slows a project down.
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley Penguin Classics, 2003 (first published 1818) Fears about technology and its limits are as fresh now as they were at the dawn of the industrial age.
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger and James Lovell Houghton Mifflin, 1994 Staying calm under pressure with lives on the line.
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