Reading

This is my recommended list of books to read:

Sprint

How to Solve Big Problem and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

By Jane Knapp & John Zeratsky

Every organization looks to implement Agile, however the great majority fails. If you are not delivering software every week, you are not going fast enough. If you want too much control, you are going slow. What is the right balance? This book describes the right habits that enables teams to stay focused in the outcomes.

Available in Audible

Team Topologies

Organizing Business And Technology teams for fast flow

By Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity.

Available in Audible

Dare To Lead

Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts

By Brene Brown

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others.

Available in Audible

The Lean Startup

How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business

By Eric Ries

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Available in Audible

Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

By Carol S. Dweck

Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities.

Available in Audible

Discovery

Explore Behavior Using Examples

By Gaspar Nagy

This book is written for everyone involved in the specification and delivery of software (including product owners, business analysts, developers, and testers). The book starts by explaining the reasons BDD exists in the first place and describes techniques for getting the most out of collaboration between business and delivery team members.

Available in Audible

Accelerate

The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building And Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we’ve been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn’t matter — that it can’t provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance — and what drives it — using rigorous statistical methods.

Available in Audible