Best techincal project management books according to redditors

• Clean Code is a really good programming book. It's technical in that it gives you best practice, but you don't need a laptop or to code to follow along, you can just absorb the information and follow along with the simple samples (even if it's not your primary coding language).
  
  
• The Clean Coder is a great book about how to build software professionally. It focuses on a lot of the softer skills a programmer needs.
  
  
• Scrum: The Art of doing twice the work in half the time is a great introduction to scrum and why you want to use it. Agile (and scrum in particular) can have a major improvement on the productivity of development teams. I work for a large technology company and we've seen improvements in the range of 300% for some teams after adopting scrum. Now our entire company is scrumming.
  
  
• Getting Things Done has personally helped me work more efficiently by sorting work efficiently. Having a system is key.
  
  
• How to Win Friends and Influence People I often recommend devs on our team read this because it helps with interpersonal communication in the office.
  
  
• Notes to a Software Tech Lead is a great book so you can understand what a good lead is like and hopefully one day move up in your career and become one.
  
  

The Rocket Company had an interesting idea to allow orbital launches from inland locations, in there they built the first stage to fly vertical to lob the upper stage out of the atmosphere and then the first stage would shuttlecock its way back to the launchpad area while the upper stage had to do all of the sideways boosting instead of using the first stage to pick up a couple kilometers per second sideways like, say, a Falcon.

It'd require a built-up second stage and have efficiency losses, but the argument was that the real savings would come from having lots more launch locations, much lower recycling costs between launches, and so on. First stage failures have your wreckage confined to your launch complex and upper stage failures can have a huge flexibility in where the spacecraft comes down or, if it's something like the vehicle coming apart, the hypersonic re-entry tears it apart and it's essentially no different from a small aircraft accident by the time stuff hits the ground.

I'm not suggesting that's the plan here, but... just as a thought experiment, if the Starship is borderline SSTO on its own, then one that's lobbed vertically out of the atmosphere should be able to comfortably orbit with payload and then land like normal, just less payload than a standard downrange first stage course would provide. The first stage lands back at the launch complex for the next flight and...

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Again, not saying that's the plan here, but what an announcement THAT'D be at the 9/28 event....

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Many years ago, I wrote the book "Offshoring IT Services: Offshoring Management".

More about my book-writing and publishing experience: "On writing a book". So, how did I benefit?

• The book was published by an a-list publisher (McGrawHill )
  
  
• My (then) employer bought hundreds of copies to distribute to clients
  
  
• The book sold well though the royalty didn't make me "rich"
  
  
• I got a raise and some good consulting gigs
  
  If you have a good idea on startup or entrepreneurship that you want to share, by all means write the book.
  

This is a good book too - walks you through the entire setup of what you want databases to do, how to design them in efficient ways, how to avoid common mistakes, etc. http://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Design-Implementation-Management/dp/1423902017/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311489748&sr=1-2

I've also spent over 20 years on implementations and I completely agree on all points. I'll add one other point: aside from data conversion, the HR system is the "single source of truth" for just about every other internal system and many vendor interfaces. Before you even choose your new HR system, make a critical analysis of your interfaces, inbound and outbound, and find ways to minimize the amount of custom work. I had one customer that was clever enough to create a small database external to the HR system which was the source of most outbound integrations, updated from the HR system every day. When they converted to a new HR system, they only had to create the one new feed; all other interfaces were already in place and thoroughly tested.

And for that current production HR and payroll data you can't avoid converting, I wrote a book: The Data Conversion Cycle: A guide to migrating transactions and other records, for system implementation teams.

Sure thing!

http://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Project-Study-Authorized-Courseware/dp/0470585927/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463544309&sr=8-1&keywords=project%2B

It's the book that ucertify pulls its material from so you might also be able to get a PDF of the book from a course mentor. I thought there was a link somewhere in the COS but I can't find it.

Wow. It's like he took the two-stage, semi-modular design from The Rocket Company and scaled it up to go to Mars.

I'm skeptical though. It smells like a lifting-body design, which to me seems like more complexity than I would have expected from SpaceX. And I'm waiting to hear about a space cargo version that Musk can sell to cover NASA's tepid LEO/BEO plans. At $0.5B/flight, I don't think Musk wants to fund this himself.

I work at a data analyst, and I use SQL everyday. Here are the two books I have in my office for reference: [book 1] (http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-10g-SQL-Joan-Casteel/dp/141883629X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345343539&sr=8-1&keywords=oracle+sql+10g) and [book 2] (http://www.amazon.com/SQL-All---One-For-Dummies/dp/0470929960/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345343578&sr=8-1&keywords=sql+for+dummies). These plus Google have saved me many times.

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Eschewed carbon fiber for aluminum.

Friction stir welding.

Funded by dot.com billionaire.

TSTO.

Pop-up trajectory 1st stage.

Gas generator cycle.

Favor rugged & simple over complex & bleeding edge.

http://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Project-Study-Authorized-Courseware/dp/0470585927/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426225915&sr=8-1&keywords=project%2B

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Management-Mining-Handbook-Delivering/dp/0873354036/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mining+book+owen&qid=1573088595&sr=8-1

When I took it, we used the sample "Sakila" database for a lot, it is part of the MySQL tutorials here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/sakila/en/.

Also a strong book on database design is: Check this out: Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management (with Prem... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1111969604/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_DxCOyb8P48Q7D )

It's a text at many colleges - but covers stuff like ERDs in great detail. Handy reference. Don't buy a new one though, $$$. Find a used one or you can rent e-book for like 30 bucks / semester ( may not be most recent version but that's ok)

This book was recommended by John_Carmack and other rocket scientists

https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Company-Patrick-Stiennon-ebook/dp/B00BWEEWOI
The Rocket Company is a fictional account of the development of a commercial two stage to orbit (TSTO) reusable launch vehicle (RLV). Included is a description of the business model devised by a group of seven fictional investors committed to creating an economic engine that will cause the cost of space transportation to spiral rapidly downward as the market for launch services expands. In this context, the marketing, regulatory, and technical problems facing any serious attempt to reduce the cost of space transportation are explored. Although a work of fiction, the book follows in the vein of non-fictional accounts of the development of successful technological products and businesses, such as The Soul of a New Machine, and American Steel.