Billie's dead good software delivery management books Public

This book contains the most important practices for humans to do when developing software.

Read this if you feel like you never really got agile, or if it's never quite worked for you. This book (and I re-read it every couple of years), give you the core mechanisms for effective agile development

This book is about behavioural economics. It's important to read because when we do anything in an organisation it requires that some behaviours stay, and some behaviours change.

This book will give you a good idea as to why some things stick, and others don't, and how to change that.

Read this book if you want to learn how to take a team from Command and Control, to a more generative, bottom up style.

This book focuses on how your actions, and the systems you create and cause problems in an organisation, and how you can change your behaviours to improve everyones lives.

If I need to know how to do user research, at any stage of the development process, I use the techniques described in this book.

Read this book to learn how to run effective user research, in a data driven style.

A lot of the time, people do not think about how their interactions impact how a team delivers work. Read this book if you want some ideas on how to get your team thinking about person to person interactions.

This is a business fable, and the story is kinda naff. Work book for it is good too.

The art is terrible, and the story is as bad as it is in the original book. You need to read this.

This book lays out a theory of motivation called Self Deterimination Theory.

If you want to know how to motivate people, read this book. It compliments "Turn The Ship" around nicely. More science based than story based.

I think this was the first or second business book I ever read.

This book uses the lens of a startup as to how you can iterate to find product market fit. However it has quite a lot to teach people who just want to know how, with a small group of people, can you learn what your customers want.

Why do assholes get into positions of power, and how can you stop it in your organisation.

This book offers insights into what happens when people get power. Importantly it gives you enough information to create "asshole resistant" teams.

Built around the idea that organisations that self selecting teams produce better software, this book contains strategies for restructuring teams that allow for the consent of those involved and maintain agility to form and reform the teams in the future if needed.

If you need to work out how to teach someone something, this book contains everything you need to do to run a fun and effective training course.

Gives you a framework for a workshop and a bunch of exercises to use.

Read this if you want your meetings to be fun and effective.

From this you can pull individual exercises, but also a powerful philosophy of trust and respect for others ideas.

Straight forward, practical advice on how to get good information from customers.

Read this if you ever talk to customers.

Read this book if you are a person who likes artifacts, and numbers.

Radical Focus is a more compelling explanation, but that it's a business fable rubs some people the wrong way. This is a alternative approach to the same information.

This is a pretty good read if you want to know the history of the DevOps movement, before that initial first DevOps days meeting.