Category: Books

Finished reading Slack by Tom DeMarco tonight.  There is a reasonable review here .  The basic premise of the book  is that by building some slack into schedules, the projects are better — that innovation and improvements happen during the slack.  Basic premises include avoiding overtime, not doing ‘aggresive’ schedules, build trust for risks and…

I finished reading a used copy of Freakonomics over the weekend.  If you haven’t read a review of this book, follow this link I thought this book was interesting, but I don’t know how highly I would recommend it.  His use of statistics make it an intersting read and he generally avoids, and actually points…

I finished reading the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.  It was written in 1993 so it’s a little bit dated, but in that sense it make the principles more interesting since most of his predictions can be tested because you can see how accurate the predictions turned out.  The concept of the book though is…