Books of interest

I think that everybody who designs software systems or manages people who in turn design software software system should have read most or all of these books. I have repeatedly experience people ignoring the lessens taught by the authors of these books, sometimes even decades after publications.

The books are in order of original publication, not order of preference. Especially the books (co-)written by Gene Kim make a lot more sense when read in the order of publication.

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Frederick P. Brooks, 1995 (orig 1975)

• The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, 2012 (orig 1982)

• The Deadline, Tom DeMarco, 1997

• Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, 2013

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, Betsy Beyer and Chris Jones and Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy, 2016

• The DevOPS Handbook, Gene Kim, 2016

• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and Devops: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, von Nicole Forsgren Phd and Jez Humble and Gene Kim, 2018

• Unicorn Project, Gene Kim, 2019