Billie's dead good software delivery management books Public

This is a good sequel to the Phoenix Project, where the Pheonix Project focused on doing a transformation when you already have power, being a manager or whatever, this book focuses on what you can do as an individual contributor, and includes some more anti-patterns to look out for

Read this book to stop thinking of your sales department as slick, fast talking car sales people, and instead get some insights into the challenges of the job.

If you work in sales, I don't think that there is an anything here for you, but if you want to build empathy, this book is ideal

Read this if you are overwhelmed and need to find more time to do more.

While this guide is all about the personal, daily work you do, it is also an excellent model for making iterative development compelling, without subscribing to Agile or Scrum or whatever.

This is a great guide on how to run compelling workshops. While they give you the plan for this "Sprint" workshop, it's a chock full of great advice on how to run product discovery workshops more generally, and a great introduction to the double diamond pattern.

A must read. An fantastic introduction to Systems Thinking.

Everyone should read this book, because it gives you the mental tools to effectively break down complex problems.

This book explains how consulting should be done.

Read this if you are tired of Management Consultants, and want a better approach.

Read this to get ideas for information radiators, sprint boards, and any other system to make knowledge work visible.

I mostly use this as a reference, very useful in the physical space, less useful in the new hybrid digital world we live in.

I am an introvert, and as such I sometimes need help building rapport and knowing how to build that social side of a team.

This book is the perfect antidote to that, covering some solid science by Amy Edmonson, it tells you how to build psychological safety, and a culture of feedback in a team.

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.