Going from SE toward SEM I'd suggest you get into s/w metrics.
Nothing is better for decision making and advancing good arguments at
meetings than being able to give numbers.
- Fenton: Software Metrics
Obviously there's a ton of pop management stuff. A few of my
favourites:
Strong disagree. Metrics-based management leads to so much dysfunction. Read Robert Austin’s Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations for the details, but the short version is that metrics distract people from things that are important but non-measurable.
- Fenton: Software Metrics
Obviously there's a ton of pop management stuff. A few of my favourites:
- Horowtz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Pink: Drive
- Evans: The Trousers of Reality
- Gall: General Systemantics