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Product Development

  • Abbot & Fisher, The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Proceses & Organizations for the Modern Enterprise (Wiley, 2010)
  • Belotti, Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) (No Starch, 2021)
  • Belsky, The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest & Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture (Penguin, 2018)
  • Cummings & Peer, Leading Quality: How Great Leaders Delivery High-Quality Software & Accelerate Growth (ROI, 2019)
  • DeGrandis & DeMaria, Making Work Visibility: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow (IT Revolution, 2017)
  • DeWolf & Hall, The Product Mindset: Succed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks (Lioncrest, 2019)
  • Gruver, Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise (2016)
  • Gruver & Mouser, Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile & DevOps Principles at Scale (IT Revolution, 2015)
  • Forsgren & Humble & Kim, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software & DevOps: Building & Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
  • Humble & Farley, Continous Delivery (Pearson, 2011)
  • Kim, The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developer, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data (2019)
  • Kim & Barr & Spafford, The Phoenix Project: A Novcel about IT, DevOps & Helping Your Business Win (IT Revolution, 2013)
  • Myatt, Hacking Leadership (Wiley, 2014)
  • Nygard, Release It: Design & Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Pogrammers, 2007)
  • Perri, Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
  • Seiden, Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behvior is the key metric for business success
  • Skelton & Pais, Team Topologies: Organization Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, (IT Revolution, 2019)
  • Whittaker & How Google Tests Software
  • LeMay, Product Management in Practice, 2nd Edition (2022)

Management & Leadership

  • Garvey Berger, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity
  • Horstman, The Effective Manager
  • Ikonne, Becoming a Leader in Product Development: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Essentials (2021)
  • Kethledge & Erwin, Lead Yourself First
  • Lencioni, The Motive: Why SO Many Leaders Abidcate Their Most Important Responsibilities
  • McChrystal and Eggers and Mangone, Leaders: Myth & Reality
  • Nightingale, Unmanageable: Leadership Lessons from an Impossible Year (2021)

Engineering Leadership

  • Drasner, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
  • Fitzpatrick & Collins-Sussman, Debugging Tams: Better Productivity through Collaboration
  • Lopp, The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well
  • Lopp, Managing Humans
  • Larson & Reilly, Staff Engineer: Leaderhisp beyond the management track
  • Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
  • Nazaria, Technical Minds: Leading and Getting the Best Work from you Technicall-Minded Team (2010)
  • Nightingale, How F*cked Up is Your Management: An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership
  • Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Chang (2022)

Program & Project Management

  • Teter,Joshua Alan. Technical Program Manager's Handbook, Second Edition (2024)

Military-Style Leadership

  • Edwards, The Burden of Command (2014)
  • Marquet, Turn the Ship Around: A Ture Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (Portfolio/Penguin, 2014)
  • Oliver, Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy (Naval Institute, 2014)
  • Willick, Leadership Strategy & Tactics: Field Manual, (St. Martins, 2019)

Business & Technology Case Studies & Memoirs

  • Carreyrou, Bad BLoud: Secrets & Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
  • Fowler, Whistleblower: My Unlikely Journey to Silicon Valley and Speaking Out Against Injustice
  • Hoffman, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
  • Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine (Back Bay, 1981)
  • Rich & Janos, Skunkworks (Little Brown, 1994)

Organizational Culture & Transformation

  • Barno & Bensahel, Adaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime
  • Fussell & Goodyear & McChrystal, One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
  • Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (North River, 2004)
  • Helfland, Dynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams
  • Kotter, Leading Change
  • McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom & Responsibility
  • Naryan, Agile IT Organizational Design (Wiley)
  • Schein, Organizational Culture & Leadership

Systems Thinking & Complexity Science

  • Meadows, Donella Thinking in Systems
  • Varney, Leadership in Complexity and Change: For a World in Constant Motion
  • Montalion, Learning Systems Thinking (2024)

Knowledge & Productivity

  • Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What you Don't Know
  • Parrish, The Great Mental Model Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
  • Sull & Eisenhardt, Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World

CyberSecurity

  • Carlson, How to Manage Cybersecurity Risk: A Security Leader's Roadmap with Open FAIR
  • Kaplan, Beyond CyberSecurity

History & Biography

WW2

  • Barr, Eisenhower's Armies
  • McManus, September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
  • Latimer, Burma: The Forgotten War
  • Orange, Park: The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park
  • Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
  • Truscott, Command Missions: A Personal Story

Vietnam

  • Saliba, Death in the Highlands: The Seige of Special Forces Camp Plei Mei

Caveats

  • are MUST READ not the ones I've read,