Software Project Survival Guide

I just finished an excellent book by software project management guru and author Steve McConnell. After over twelve years in the IT industry as a developer, business analyst, team leader, project manager, architect, engineer and consultant, I was expecting this book to a be a good review and in many ways it was. But as the title implies, it is an excellent guide. It took me through areas of the trade that I am very familiar with and it introduced me to a few more tools and techniques that I'm anxious to put to use. As the author describes, he uses three main references in writing the book: The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) from theSoftware Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory's (SEL's) Recommended Approach to Software Development, Revision 3, and third, his own experience which itself is extensive.  I highly recommend this book to any one leading or supporting software development projects.