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The Mythical Man-Month, Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition , by Frederick P. Brooks, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Some of the projects described in this book are so large and complex that we might wonder what the modern developer has to complain about. We quickly see that today's project management issues are the same as they ever were.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, O'Reilly & Associates, 1998.

Navigation is the single largest determinant of a site's success or failure. The best content is worthless if it is hidden away from the user . This book is about design patterns for Web sites and will serve as a daily companion for the Web professional.

Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach , by Russell Nakano, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Working together to gather Web site content and then maintain it is a major theme in Web development. This practical guide dovetails with the XP approach and its strategies for filling out the content aspects of a mature Web release plan.

Agile Software Development with SCRUM , by Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle, and Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2002.

XP is the first of a group of "agile" development practices. SCRUM is new to us, but it deals with the same themes as XP and so deserves a look.

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