Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Tom DeMarco
Timothy Lister

£20.99

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This is an interesting book, with much the same feel as Mythical Man Month, but a focus more on managing the team.

Both books promote the theory that programmers vary vastly in productivity, and that you want to hire the good ones!

This book focusses more on the productivity of teams, suggesting that it isn't so much the individual productivity that matters but that of the group.

Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Linus Torvalds
David Diamond

£17.99

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I found this a surprisingly good read, it's very well written and manages to compress the history of Linux development in to few enough pages that I was caught up with the excitement.

One chapter is quite technical (which was interesting for me) but the rest of the book is much more the personal story of Linus' life from obssesssed and isolated nerd to rich and famous nerd with a family fast car and mansion.

Some parts are quite though provoking on the matters of open source, and what (if any) obligations one has in response to projects like Linux.