Books on IT (not Project) Management

bangpath asks: "I realize that many of my peers aspire to become managers in their field/respective subfields, but upon visiting Amazon and Barnes & Noble, I noticed a significant lacking in books about IT management. That is, most books that came up under this search were IT project management or IT systems management. Surely, these are important areas that an IT manager deals with frequently, but what about dealing with the people, policy, and responsibilities of IT? One would think that IT workers aren't the same as HR people, or Accountants, or the other types of people you'd find in a typical office. Can anyone recommend any books specifically about managing IT Professionals?"

Comments

There's some of this stuff in Limoncelli and Hogan

[biglig2]

That's "The Prcatice of System and NEtwork Administration", Addison-Wesley, 0-201-70271-1.

It's about a quarter of the book, and to is probably enough since there aren't that many differences between managing IT people and managing e.g. accountants. Of course there are some; firing sysadmins is non-trivial as you have to change every password (although this is almost a good thing as you can set the team a task to clean the accounts and this keeps their minds off what just happened).