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Watts Humphrey - Managing the Software Process
Tom DeMarco - Managing Software Projects, Slack
Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister - Peopleware, Waltzing with Bears
Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month
Barry Boehm - Software Engineering Economics
Ed Yourdon - Death March
Gerald Weinberg - The Secrets of Consulting

DeMarco and Weinberg are easy reading; Boehm and Humphrey are more tedious.

Caper Jones - Applied Software Measurement, has a table comparing process productivity