CIRCA:Readings about Management
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Here are some readings about management and project management.
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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
- Stewart, Matthew. The Management Myth. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/06/the-management-myth/4883/ Stewart criticizes management as mostly inane. A review of his book by the same titles 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/
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Historical Documents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
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow. Shop Management. https://archive.org/details/shopmanagement00taylgoog
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management - At Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6435
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
