I have always passed by the book Mythical Man-Month by Brooks
thinking it was too old and boring.  Well, I finally read it
and I think it is a good book.  It is about the larger side 
of programming but could as well be applied to big projects 
requiring a lot of people.  A main premise is that adding 
people to a late project may not make the delivery on time.
People and tasks are interwoven and dependent on one another.

Another lesson is that programming is only a small part of
overall devlopment.  The specification, design, and testing
need to be emphasized when estimating a schedule.

Each chapter is short enough to keep my attention.  I
recommend this book to people new to software development and
management of projects, as well as to the jockey software 
types.  The writing is good quality and the topics are
important in this day when software seems lacking something.