A Field Guide to Devel­op­ers is an arti­cle by Joel ‘on Soft­ware’ Spol­sky. From read­ing this you can tell that Joel is a man who knows how to run a soft­ware house and how to keep staff happy. From it, I’ve also added another book to my read­ing list.

Last year I went to a Com­puter Sci­ence con­fer­ence at Yale. One of the speak­ers, a Sil­i­con Val­ley vet­eran who had founded or led quite an honor roll of venture-capital funded star­tups, held up the book Peo­ple­ware.

“You have to read this book,” he said. “This is the bible of how to run a soft­ware com­pany. This is the most impor­tant book out there for how to run soft­ware companies.”

I had to agree with him: Peo­ple­ware is a great book.