Death March
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Death March
Edward Yourdon
7 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2011–2020.
What people on Hacker News said
The biggest takeaway from Death March for me was that politics can dominate everything else in a project. Learning the skills to identify political nonsense, understanding how it got that way and what options you have (and sometimes that meansno options at all) is something programmers should learn as soon as possible.
It helped me notice bad patterns at an employer and gave me the motivation to quit. Its also very well written and funny, but a bit too real at times.
I think a copy should be given to every CS student upon graduation.
Death March is a good one for understanding how and why projects fail.
Where it comes up
- What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? 2011 · 5 recommendations
- Books I recommend to my software engineering students 2020 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read? 2017 · 1 recommendation