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Here are some readings about management and project management.

Introductions

• Here are some introductions to project management from shorter to longer ones. Microsoft, for example, has A short course in project management which is 5 pages long.
• Lisa Spiro has a "Getting Started in Digital Humanities" at http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/getting-started-in-digital-humanities-by-lisa-spiro/
• DevDH.org has a number of podcasts on subjects like "Best Practice Principles Of Designing Your First Project" http://devdh.org/lectures/design/bestpractice/

Criticism of Management

• Hoopes, James. False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management And Why Their Ideas Are Bad For Business Today. http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0738207985
• Stewart, Matthew. The Management Myth. http://www.amazon.com/Management-Myth-Experts-Getting-Wrong/dp/B00D9TRMLO There is an excerpt with the same title from The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/06/the-management-myth/4883/ A review of his book by the same title is available at http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/10/12/091012crat_atlarge_lepore
• What Monty Python Taught Me About the Software Industry. http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/04/what-monty-python-taught-me-about-the-software-industry/
• Critical Management Studies is a loose field of research that looks critically at management. See http://criticalmanagement.org/
• Alvesson, M and Willmott, H (eds) (1992) Critical Management Studies. London: Sage. This collection introduced the subject. http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book203288?siteId=sage-us&prodTypes=any&q=critical+management+studies&fs=1
• Leher. "Groupthink: The brainstorming myth." http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all

History of Project Management

• A quick history of project management (from Microsoft). http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/a-quick-history-of-project-management-HA010351563.aspx
• History of Project Management site. http://www.lessons-from-history.com/history-project-management/history-project-management-page
• Wilson, James. "Gantt charts: A centenary appreciation." European Journal of Operational Research 149 (2003) 430–437. http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~gibson/Teaching/CSC7003/ReadingMaterial/Wilson03.pdf

Historical Documents

• Brooks, Frederick. "No Silver Bullet" - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBullet.html
• Bush, Vannevar."As We May Think" - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
• Clark, Wallace. The Gantt Chart. https://archive.org/details/ganttchartworkin00clar
• Follett, Mary Parker. "The Teacher-Student Relation." Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jun., 1970) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2391484 An important early voice on leadership For the background on this paper see Eberly and Smith, "Preface to 'The Teacher-Student Relation.'" http://www.jstor.org/stable/2391483
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow. Shop Management. https://archive.org/details/shopmanagement00taylgoog Excerpts at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/taylor/shop-management/abstract.htm
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management - At Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6435
• Wren, Bedeian, and Breeze. "The foundations of Henri Fayol’s administrative theory." http://bus.lsu.edu/management/faculty/abedeian/articles/Fayol.pdf Includes background on Fayol and excerpts.

Readings Related to Management

Collaboration

• Bill of Rights for Collaborators. http://mith.umd.edu/offthetracks/recommendations/

Meetings

• Bad meetings are your fault. http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/bad-meetings-are-your-fault/22650
• Meetings Bloody Meetings - Clip from John Cleese business video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYnVt-umSA

Methods

• Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, "The new new product development game." Harvard Business Review, January-February 1986. Pages 137 - 146. http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=86116

Digital Humanities

• Arts and Humanities.net Bibliography is a list of 196 books about digital humanities.
• CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide - http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide

Books

• Albrecht and Brakos, On the Job: Design and the American Office - At Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/On-Job-Design-American-Office/dp/1568982410
• Deming, W. Edwards. Out of he Crisis. http://www.amazon.ca/Out-Crisis-W-Edwards-Deming/dp/0262541157
• NASA, Recommended Approach to Software Development, Revision 3, Document SEL-81-305, Greenbelt, Maryland: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, 1992. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dts/pm/Papers/nasa-approach.pdf

Web Sites

• Gambrell, Alice. "The Stolen Time Archive." Vectors - http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=10
• Processed World. A web site for a magazine for office workers - http://www.processedworld.com/
• What is the project management book that left the most impact on you? http://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/19/what-is-the-project-management-book-that-left-the-most-impact-on-you
• Real Software Engineering. Glenn Vanderburg talking about software engineering - http://confreaks.com/videos/282-lsrc2010-real-software-engineering
• Agile Manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org/
• Creating an online scholarly presence - http://cscdc.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=734
• "The Question of Inclusion in the Digital Humanities" has a number of useful links - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGaXQOgCa42Ru8vz5Y3Vk5PNR25OWb7H703RWwxZzyY/mobilebasic?pli=1
• Video Arts has a number of management training videos by John Cleese - http://www.videoarts.com/us/
• Desk Set is a movie with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn on automation in the workplace from 1957 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Set

Course Outlines

• Alan Liu's DH Resources for his Introduction to DH - http://eng236introdh2013f.pbworks.com/w/page/67584062/DH%20Resources#view=page