The books and workshops that I have invested my Learning & Development budget on in the last 3 years.
- The Manager's Path, Camille Fournier
- The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo
- Staff Engineer, Will Larson
- An Elegant Puzzle, Will Larson
- Managing Humans, Michael Lopp
- Resilient Management, Lara Hogan
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
- A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to Being a Better Leader, Ari Weinzweig
- Measure What Matters, John Doerr
- Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet
- Start With Why, Simon Sinek
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
- Crucial Conversations, Joseph Grenny
- Dare to Lead, Brene Brown
- The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier
- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know, Camille Fournier
- Talking with Tech Leads, Patrick Kua
- The Retrospective Handbook, Patrick Kua
- Making Work Visible, Dominica DeGrande
- The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christenson
- Building Great Software Engineering Teams, Joshua Tyler
- The Mythical Man-month, Fred Brooks
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers
- Growign Object Oriented Systems, Steve Freeman
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Kent Beck
- Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck
- Design Patterns, Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vissides
- Designing Interfaces, Jennifer Tidwell
- Explore It! Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing, Elisabeth Hendrickson
- Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, Sandi Metz
- 99 Bottles of OOP, Sandi Metz & Katrina Owen
- Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio
- Superforecasting, Philip Tetlock
- Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks
- Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja
- Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil
- Site Reliability Engineering, Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy
- The Challenger Launch Decision, Diane Vaughn
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
- Implementing Service Level Objectives, Alex Hidalgo
- Release It! Michael T. Nygard
- Seeking SRE, David Blank-Edelman
- Cloud Native Patterns, Cornelia Davis
- The Art of Scalability, Martin Abbott
- Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
- The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
- The Unicorn Project, Gene Kim
- The DevOps Handbook, Gene Kim
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann
- Designing Distributed Systems, Brendan Burns
- Production-Ready Microservices, Susan Fowler
- BPF Performance Tools, Brendan Gregg
- Database Internals, Alex Petrov
- Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch
- Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, Scott Rogers
- Game Design Vocabulary, Anna Anthropy
- Game Design and Play: An iterative approach to game design, Colleen Macklin
- Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Katie Salen Tekinbas
- Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, Fabien Sanglard
- The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook, Karl Kapp
- On Writing Well, William Zinser
- Non-violent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Say What You Mean: A mindful approach to Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer
- Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
- Strategic Writing for UX, Torrey Podmajersky
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch
- Radical Candor, Kim Scott
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo
- How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
- How to do the Work, Dr. Nicole Lepera
- Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
These are conferences I've attended over the years OR heard positive things about from trusted friends, not necessarily in the last 3 years.
- The Lead Developer
- The Lead Dev Together
- StaffPlus
- RailsConf
- Bath Ruby
- EuRuKo
- EuroClojure
- JSConf
- CraftConf
- Software Craft & Testing (SoCraTes)
- Codefreeze
- SoCraTes UK
- SoCraTes Germany
- Codebar Festival
- SRECon
- DevOpsDays
- QCon