So many good book recommendations here, but no one has mentioned Tom DeMarco's The Deadline: https://books.google.com/books?id=5_kJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover

So many good book recommendations here, but no one has mentioned Tom DeMarco's The Deadline: https://books.google.com/books?id=5_kJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover https://books.google.com/books?id=5_kJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=fron... In style and content, it's a bit like an older version of "The Phoenix Project" that was focused on delivering packaged software, and mostly oriented around a "stocks and flows" model of the development process. The framing narrative is much more amusing, though. Also worth reading Edward Yourdon's Death March: https://books.google.com/books?id=FdAZUX9H_gAC&printsec=frontcover https://books.google.com/books?id=FdAZUX9H_gAC&printsec=fron...