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Here are some readings about management and project management.

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/

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 exerpt 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

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

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

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

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

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 === 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
-James Hoopes
 * Stewart, Matthew. The Management Myth. http://www.amazon.com/Management-Myth-Experts-Getting-Wrong/dp/B00D9TRMLO There is an exerpt 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/