Book List
In the past few years I've been making a transition from a specialized software quality related role to а more broad director of engineering role. From direct manager to manager of managers. Here is a list of books I found very helpful seeing the big picture and hopefully useful if you’re on a similar journey. The list is in no particular order and will be updated in the future.
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
the Work of Management: A Daily Path to Sustainable Improvement
Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More
The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
The Machine That Changed the World
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right