Here is some good advice I found about software management:
Eric S. Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar series. Also see his “How to Become a Hacker” document. Concentrates on open-source hacking.
Joel on Software - a collection of articles and essays and a weblog by Joel Spolsky. Concentrates on writing commercial, marketplace software.
Paul Graham - many essays on different topics including Lisp, language design, dynamic languages, startups, and general philosophy.
Extreme Programming - a software management methodology intended primarily for developing in-house software, but with some good, general ideas.
After reading all of those you’ll become much more clueful about good software management than without it. Reading them taught me a lot, and even if I disagreed with some of the opinions they voiced, they were still good food for thought.