Billie's dead good software delivery management books Public

Read this if you want to know how organisations react to news that they don't want to hear.

I find it really useful to identify holding techniques people put you into to slow down changes you want to make in an organisation. Once you can identify these you can take action to unstuck a change

This book has some fantastic advice for managing conversations with people when you know there is likely to be conflict. It's full of exercises to evaluate your own emotions, and treat the person you are talking with as a real source of advice, rather than an problem.

This book is chock full of advice for leaders of teams with learnings from the DDD community, communicated in a way to appeal to a senior leadership team.

Give this book to managers that would find DDD books too technical, or too challenging.

A nice little business fabel that explains OKRs, and how to implement them. Most suitable in direct application for small to medium sized companies, but has nuggets for everyone.

This is very important book for a mid to senior developer to read. The patterns in it are used everywhere, and reading it is great to understand the assumptions behind the patterns.

I often limit my software development to just the patterns described in the book.

Nothing revolutionary here, but powerful in it's bringing together into a single place a number of design patterns for applications that are a step after MVC. I would recommend this to a mid range developer, looking keep developing their skills.

Read this book if you want some general advice about maintaining change within an organisation.

A little cringy in parts, has some solid advice for how to improve a product, along with some metaphors that can be used to remember one. The flywheel and hedgehog are probably the most useful I think.

This books teaches you how to measure the performance of your organisation's software delivery, then gives you the evidence to back it up, then gives you the method used to build that evidence.

This is the book that started the DORA4 and is very important reading

The terms Continuos Delivery and Continuous Deployment are everywhere now and that's partly thanks to this book.

Read this book if you want to know what the key principles behind building pipelines. Some of the technology is a little dated now, but the advice is still solid.

Moore is a bit of a one hit wonder. This book offers a fantastic insight into the behaviours of organisations in different stages of the product cycle.

Read this book to learn the behaviours of organisations in each of these phases. Leave his business advice though, bit old school.

For those who found the manufacturing angle on the Goal made it hard to apply to your context.

Read this business fable to gain insight into how knowledge work systems break down, a helpful set of "memes" to identify those problems, and to read a pretty entertaining story.

This is a great summary of how people think, and why people are adverse to new ideas.

Read this to understand the basics of the ideas of behavioural economics, and broadly how people think. Heavily science based, however some of that science has now has repeatability problems.

Don't read this to live by it's algorithms.

Read this because it's got good initial explanations about common algorithms in software development and the stories about how you might use them in your every day life help them stick. Recommended for Junior to Mid developers.

This book is foundational to much of the thinking in Agile, Lean, and many other modern business books.

Read this if you want a business fable with emotional trauma for the characters business decisions, and because the ideas within it are vital to understanding how work flows between teams.

How can we make techniques easier to learn, and what effects our capacity to change and learn.

Read this book if you want to understand cognitive load, what your brain does parsing code, and how to make life easier for your pair, team, and organisation because of that knowledge