Management related…
Books/sites:
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick Brooks
- Does IT Matter, Nicholas Carr
- The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
- The Feiner Points of Leadership, Michael Feiner
- Leading Geeks, Paul Glen
- Difficult Converstations, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
- HBR.org, Harvard Business Review
- ISACA.org, Information Systems Audit and Control Association
- IT Project Failures, Michael Krigsman’s blog on ZDNet dedicated to the discussion of IT project failures
- ITIL, http://www.itil-officialsite.com
- The International Community for Project Managers, http://www.theicpm.com
- The Project Management Institute, http://www.pmi.org
Podcasts:
- The Cranky Middle Manager, Wayne Turmel’s irreverent but insightful look at middle management
- Manager Tools, run by Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne, who expanded the endeavor into Manager Tools LLC, a management consulting firm
- PM Podcast, Cornelius Fitchner’s long-running podcast looking at project management “for beginners and experts” (and you can get PDUs!)
- The pm411.org Project Management Podcast, Ron Holohan’s project management Internet radio show
Technical related …
Books/periodicals/sites:
- ComputerWorld magazine, although they have a website too; it has a good management focus
- InfoWorld, one of the first weekly magazines I started reading way back when – now I read the blogs from the likes of Bob Lewis, Paul Venezia
- IT BusinessEdge
- Microsoft Technet, a must for Microsoft shops
- Network World, magazine and web site focusing on enterprise networking
- PCMag.com, formerly the bi-weekly PC Magazine periodical, now more focused on consumer and end-user hardware and software
- The Register, “Biting the Hand That Feeds IT”
- Safari Books Online, a subscription service that provides access to a massive technical library for $40/month
- TechOpsGuys.com, blog of deep dives into infrastructure
- Tech Republic, a ZDNet web property with a focus on corporate IT
- xkcd, a hilarious web comic for techies
Podcasts:
- IT Management & Cloud Podcast, Michael Cotes and John Willis’ current news on cloud computing… although this appears to have podfaded
- Mike Tech Show, a very information podcast by an ex-corporate IT manager, although now he runs his own consultant shop catering to small business
- Packet Pushers, a networking podcast and blogsite
- Security Now, Steve’s Gibson’s weekly look at computer security, oriented towards desktops and end-users
