Billie's dead good software delivery management books Public

A exploration of alternative organisations structures for businesses.

Useful if you are currently re-organising teams, and what you have done before didn't work. Tends to jump in at the end through, read Dynamic Reteaming for a more "how do I start" approach. Very inspiring

When I need to come up with a communication plan or a strategy to roll out a new technology or technique, I follow the communication advice in this book.

Read this if you are a technologist who struggles to communicate in politically murky waters.

A fantastic exploration of how human judgement is impaired and the difference between Noise and Bias. Heavily science based, like all Kahneman's books, but also a bit boring.

Read this to learn about why and when systems of rules fail.

How to make good product roadmaps. No more, no less.

This is a basic, but very friendly, guide on how to be a team leader, generally moving towards non-technical management.

Read this if you are a junior or mid developer and feel like you want to be a manager.

The missing manual to being a product owner.

Would strongly recommend everyone who works in a product aligned team read this, if only to know how to make your product owners life easier.

This is a good sequel to the Phoenix Project, where the Pheonix Project focused on doing a transformation when you already have power, being a manager or whatever, this book focuses on what you can do as an individual contributor, and includes some more anti-patterns to look out for

Read this book to get a basic grasp of marketing.

I really value technology being an equal participant in business. To do this technology needs to have respect and empathy for other specialists. This is one of the books I read to build empathy with marketing and sales people.

Read this book to stop thinking of your sales department as slick, fast talking car sales people, and instead get some insights into the challenges of the job.

If you work in sales, I don't think that there is an anything here for you, but if you want to build empathy, this book is ideal

Read this if you are overwhelmed and need to find more time to do more.

While this guide is all about the personal, daily work you do, it is also an excellent model for making iterative development compelling, without subscribing to Agile or Scrum or whatever.

This is a great guide on how to run compelling workshops. While they give you the plan for this "Sprint" workshop, it's a chock full of great advice on how to run product discovery workshops more generally, and a great introduction to the double diamond pattern.

A must read. An fantastic introduction to Systems Thinking.

Everyone should read this book, because it gives you the mental tools to effectively break down complex problems.

This book explains how consulting should be done.

Read this if you are tired of Management Consultants, and want a better approach.

Read this to get ideas for information radiators, sprint boards, and any other system to make knowledge work visible.

I mostly use this as a reference, very useful in the physical space, less useful in the new hybrid digital world we live in.

I am an introvert, and as such I sometimes need help building rapport and knowing how to build that social side of a team.

This book is the perfect antidote to that, covering some solid science by Amy Edmonson, it tells you how to build psychological safety, and a culture of feedback in a team.