[webmaven]

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=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=fron...