Suggested Books
These are books that I heavily recommend to folks in our industry across a range of topics.
People and Execution
Code and Delivery
Product, Startups
And a few others
PDF Links
And a few links from a larger list of whitepapers, research, and so on that I've found useful and/or interesting.
- 'How Complex Systems Fail' by Richard Cook (PDF)
- 'Let There Be Stoning' by Jay H Lehr (PDF)
- 'What We Have Learned Fighting Defects' by Shull et al. (PDF)
- Merits of Organizational Metrics in Defect Prediction: An Industrial Replication (PDF)
- 'A Note On Distributed Computing' by Waldo, Wyant, Wollrath, Kendall (PDF)
- 'The Byzantine Generals Problem' by Lamport, Shostak, Pease (PDF)
- 'Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store' by DeCandia et al. (PDF)
- 'A First Encounter with Machine Learning' by Max Welling (PDF)
- 'Lean Software Management: BBC Worldwide Case Study' by Middleton, Joyce (PDF)