I know what you mean, Todd. Worse still is how full of jargon many are. My problem wasn’t so much in using tools as in knowing how to manage expectations and communicate efficiently with very different personalities. That’s the hard stuff.

Dynamics of Software Development and Rapid Development are two I learned a lot from (make that three I love from MS people).

As far as other, non-software books, the pickins is thin, in my experience. I’ve bought probably half a dozen okay-quality books just so I’d be up to date on lingo, but I haven’t been really bowled over by a PM book in a while.

Let me pick through some boxes and see if any jog my memory.