Recommendations you can check.
by Tom DeMarco, 1987
Who uses, recommends or left Peopleware, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
4 people
But once you start to do so, it's a great book and probably the best one there is on programming management.
A post written after colleagues asked him which programming books had shaped him most.
2016-11-25·philipotoole.com ↗
If you have any legitimate aspirations to be a "Team Leader" in practice instead of in name only, you need to pick up a copy of this book.
His long-running "Recommended Reading for Developers" list, last updated September 2025.
2004-02-02·blog.codinghorror.com ↗
This book agrees with my biases and I'd love for this book to be right, but the meta evidence makes me want to re-read this with a critical eye and look up primary sources.
'Programming book recommendations and anti-recommendations' — a topic-by-topic list of the technical books he has read, with what each one is and is not good for. The site gives no day, only 10/16 in its index.
2016-10-01·danluu.com ↗
On managing software develope teams — not the technical side, but the soft human side.
On his public list of books he has read, with his notes.
2015-01-01·radex.io ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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