CIRCA:Readings about Management

From CIRCA

Here are some readings about management and project management.

Contents 1 Introductions 2 Criticism 3 History of Project Management 4 Collaboration 5 Meetings 6 Methods

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.

Criticism

• Stewart, Matthew. The Management Myth. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/06/the-management-myth/4883/ Stewart criticizes management as mostly inane.
• What Monty Python Taught Me About the Software Industry. http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/04/what-monty-python-taught-me-about-the-software-industry/

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

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

Methods

• Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, "The new new product development game." Harvard Business Review, January-February 1986. Pages 137 - 146.