Professional CodeIgniter / Thomas Myer, Wiley, 2008
Structure your PHP web app using a MVC framework. This book on the CodeIgnitor framework starts by comparing it to the Symfony and CakePHP frameworks. Then agile programming is discussed, and you dive into code examples with a shopping cart, a dashboard and a WYSIWYG editor. The book has 300 very readable and practical pages.
Manage it! : your guide to modern, pragmatic project management / Johanna Rothman, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007
Here is the best book on software project management that I know of.
Code leader : using people, tools, and processes to build successful software / Patrick Cauldwell, Wiley, 2008
Here is a book to help a programmer make the move up to team leader. It is one thing to be technically sharp, and quite another to organize a group to be technically sharp together. Philosophy, Process, Code Construction: all at a practical level, and concise at 200 pages. Very good!
Pragmatic thinking and learning : refactor your wetware / by Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008.
Here is a book about how the brain works, written by programmers for programmers. It is general, and will be interesting to anyone trying to learn to think better. The ‘pragmatic’ movement joined with others in 2001 to form the ‘agile manifesto’.
Visual Studio Team System : better software development for agile teams / Will Stott, Addison-Wesley, 2007
Team System supports an agile process to coordinate a group of programmers. Sections include:
800 pages.