My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2010.
Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter.
Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays, edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, and Naomi Karten, Dorset House Publishing, 2000.
Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture for IT Architects, by Tom S. Graves, Tetradian Books, 2008.
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, by John P. Kotter, Harvard Business Press, 2010. By invitation from Amazon. Advance Reader's Copy.
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, by Tom DeMarco, Yourdon Press Computing Series, 1982.
The Data Model Resource Book Volume 3: Universal Patterns for Data Modeling, by Len Silverston and Paul Agnew, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009.
Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, by Vineet Nayar, Harvard Business Press, 2010. By invitation from Amazon.
Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information, by Allen Dreibelbis, Eberhard Hechler, Ivan Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Paul van Run, and Dan Wolfson, IBM Press, 2008.
Java Transaction Processing: Design and Implementation, by Mark Little, Jon Maron, and Greg Pavlik, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004.
Mastering VMware vSphere 4: Install and Maintain VMware vSphere 4, Create and Manage Virtual Networks, by Scott Lowe, Sybex, 2009.
Open Source ESBs in Action, by Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen, Manning Publications, 2009.
Open Source SOA, by Jeff Davis, Manning Publications, 2009.
Rules to Break & Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series), by Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, PhD, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide: Shortcuts down the Path of Virtualization, by Bernie Baker, Thomas Bryant, Duncan Epping, Dave Mishchenko, Stuart Radnidge, and Alan Renouf, BookSurge Publishing, 2009.