Note: it might be surprising that we are assigning you a book whose intended audience is executives. We think this stuff is essential in any job, including this one. And we think it will be crucial for you in grad school if you decide to pursue it.
Note: the standards of evidence are poor in this book (e.g. a lot of anecdotes and correlation). We are assigning this book because we think it contains good ideas about how to be productive in a team, rather than because we think it presents compelling evidence for these ideas.
Note: This list of practices is a bit different from our lab’s. The motivation for assigning this is to help explain why we (and they!) bother with all these specific IT practices around documentation and collaboration.