Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
Neeley has researched distributed and global teams for two decades, and organises the book around the questions leaders actually ask about remote working.
Kniberg's field report on how one team ran Scrum and Extreme Programming together, written up as a set of decisions with the reasoning behind each. It covers how they wrote product backlogs, ran sprint planning, sized stories …
Google's account of the practices that let thousands of engineers work in one codebase over decades, organised around culture, processes and tools. The opening argument is that software engineering is programming integrated over …
Skelton and Pais give four team types of stream aligned, enabling, complicated subsystem and platform, and three interaction modes of collaboration, X as a service and facilitating.
A novel in which a manager is kidnapped and set to run software projects in a fictional country, a device that lets DeMarco test management ideas as plot rather than as advice.
Edmondson has researched psychological safety for decades and here sets out what it is, what it produces, and how a leader builds it. The first part defines the concept as a shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk …
Fournier structures the book as a career ladder, giving a chapter to each rung from being managed, through mentoring and the tech lead role, to managing people, managing teams, managing managers, and senior leadership.
A novel about an IT manager given ninety days to save a failing project, used as a vehicle for the Three Ways of flow, feedback and continual learning. The Theory of Constraints runs underneath, with the plot turning on identifying the bottleneck and subordinating everything to it.
Marquet captained a nuclear submarine and replaced the standard leader and follower model with one where authority moved to the people who held the information.
Metts and Welfle argue that the words in a product are part of the design and should be made the same way, through research, iteration and testing. The book covers writing for interfaces, handling the moments where a product has …