The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management, Tom DeMarco, Dorset House, 1997.
A thought experiment in novel form: what would happen if we could run the same project multiple ways in a project management laboratory? The main character keeps a journal of all the project management ideas he gets, including things like thinking of a jelled team as a project deliverable, what an analysis or design needs to include, consequences of pathological management, and the benefits of small teams (at least at the beginning). (Reviewed Feb., ’03)