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Shortlist of IT-Related Books that influenced me
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At this time Audible doesn't yet allow for sharing the titles in your personal library, which is why I put up some titles here. Feel free to add titles in the comments that influenced you :)

Shortlist of IT-Related Books that influenced me

Thought provoking stories

  • Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
  • The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
  • Beyond the Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution of DevOps Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
  • Sandworm, A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers; By: Andy Greenberg

Insights and/or knowledge sharing

  • The Art of Business Value; By: Mark Schwartz
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
  • The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right; By: Atul Gawande
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, 30th Anniversary Edition
  • Beyond the Goal: Theory of Constraints
  • Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
  • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth
  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
  • HBRs 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture, HBR's 10 Must Reads Series; By: Harvard Business Review
  • War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age; By: Mark Schwartz
  • Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, The Humble Leadership Series; By: Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein
  • Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework; By: Mik Kersten
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable 1st Edition; By Patrick Lencioni (Author)
  • The five keys to a successful Google team; By Rework with Google

IT Architecture

  • Complex Enterprise Architecture: A New Adaptive Systems Approach, By: John D. McDowall
  • Hands-On Cybersecurity for Architects: Plan and design robust security architectures, By: Neil Rerup

Reading list

  • The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You
  • Kaizen: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Continuous Improvement and Transforming Your Life with Self Discipline
  • Big Data: Using Smart Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance
  • Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
  • Outcomes over Output: Why Customer Behavior Is the Key Metric for Business Success
  • Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others 1st Edition; by Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Author), Ben Collins-Sussman
  • Dynamic Reteaming, The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams, First Edition By: Heidi Helfand
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto), By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto), By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Culture Map, By: Erin Meyer
  • Site Reliability Engineering, By: Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff & Nial Murphy
  • Management 3.0: The Book
  • The Timeless Way of Building book, By: Christopher W. Alexander
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