The following books are pre-approved. Others may be acceptable, email me for approval.

 

 

 

Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
by Frederick P. Brooks

 

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (Paperback)
by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister

 

Death March, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Edward Yourdon

 

Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science) (Paperback)
by Bertrand Meyer

 

 

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) (Hardcover)
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition (Paperback) by Gerald M. Weinberg

Code Complete, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Steve McConnell

 

The Unified Software Development Process (Hardcover)
by Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh

 

 

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition (Paperback)
by Martin Fowler

 

MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture--Practice and Promise (Paperback)
by Anneke Kleppe, Jos Warmer, Wim Bast

 

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by Martin Fowler (Author)

 

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
by Martin Fowler (Author), Kent Beck (Author), John Brant (Author), William Opdyke (Author), Don Roberts (Author)

 

Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions (Paperback)
by Luke Hohmann (Author)

 

Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Object-Oriented Software Engineering Series) (Hardcover)
by Martin Fowler (Author)

 

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management (Paperback)
by Tom Demarco (Author)

 

It's Not Luck (Paperback)
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Author)

 

The Goal (Paperback)
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Author), Jeff Cox (Author)

 

Theory of Constraints (Paperback)
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Author)

 

Necessary But Not Sufficient (Paperback)
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Author), Eli Schragenheim (Author), Carol A. Ptak (Author)

 

The Haystack Syndrome: Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Paperback - Jun 2006)

Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win (Paperback)
by Ken Auer (Author), Roy Miller (Author)

Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Hardcover)
by Robert C. Martin (Author)

Head First Design Patterns (Head First) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) - Matt Jones
by Elisabeth Freeman (Author), Eric Freeman (Author), Bert Bates (Author), Kathy Sierra (Author)

The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Project By Joe Marasco

The First-Time Manager, 5th edition
By
Loren B. Belker, Gary S. Topchik

Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) by Kent Beck (Paperback - Nov 8, 2002)

Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by 37signals