Recommended Reading
Below are books and other resources I have found to be extremely useful, I hope you find them to be as well!
Leadership
- Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel
- The Effective Manager
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S.Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
- The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
- The Art of Leadership
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- Rework
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Software Development
Testing
- The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# 2nd Edition
- Starting to Unit Test: Not as Hard as You Thin
- Working Effectively with Unit Tests
Software Design Principles
- Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
- Adaptive Code: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles
- Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
- The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
Refactoring
Career
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
- Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
- The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
- So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- Damn Good Advice(For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential
Process
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- Theory of Constraints
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
- Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Psychology
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Engineering and the Mind’s Eye
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future