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Platform Strategy - Gregor Hohpe

Building a second brain - Tiago Forte



Everybody matters - Bob Chapman, Raj Sisodia



Skunk Work - Ben R. Rich




Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions - Andrew Harmel-Law



Arc42 by example - Gernot Starke & Ralf D. Müller




Residues - Barry O'Reilly



Strategic Monoliths and Microservices - Vaughn Vernon



User Story Mapping - Jef Patton



Value Stream Mapping - Karen Martin & Mike Osterling



Developer Hegemony - Erik Dietrich



Dare to Lead - Brene Brown



Building Medaillion Architectures - Piethein Strengholt


The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data - Gene Kim

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman



Leadership is Language - L. David Marquet



The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis


The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford


Noise : A Flaw in Human Judgment - Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein



Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths 


Turn the ship around! - L. David Marquet

 



Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions - Luke Hohmann


Software architecture for Developers  - Simon Brown


Software architecture for busy developers - Stéphane Eyskens

Originals - Adam Grant



Design It! From Programmer to Software Architect - Michael Keeling



Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim


Tidy First - Kent Beck


The new one minute manager -  Ken Blanchard



Writing for busy readers -  Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink



Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach - George Fairbanks



How to begin - Michael Stanier



Verbaal meesterschap - Remco Claassen



Cloud strategy - Gregor Hophe



A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout



Leaders eat last - Simon Sinek



Back to basics in leiderschap - Michel De Coster



Software Architecture Metrics - Christian Ciceri, Dave Farley, Neal Ford, Andrew Harmel-Law, Michael Keeling, Carola Lilienthal, João Rosa, Alexander von Zitzewitz, Rene Weiss, Eoin Woods



37 things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation - Gregor Hophe




The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek



The Advantage - Patrick Lencioni



Team Topologies

The Software Architect Elevator - Gregor Hohpe



Kubernetes Patterns



Software Engineering at Google




The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team - Patrick Lencioni


Hit refresh - Satya Nadella



From monolith to microservices - Sam Newman




The Art of Agile Development - James Shore




The Motive - Patrick Lencioni


Creative Acts of Curious people - Sarah Stein Greenberg




Software Architecture - The hard parts


Five dysfunctions of a team - Patrick Lencioni




The ideal teamplayer - Patrick Lencioni



Think Again -  Adam Grant


Shape Up


Patterns of software -  Richard P. Gabriel

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

De bijenherder - Rini Van Solingen



Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg



Hiring Engineers -  Marianne Belotti



Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach 1st Edition - Mark Richards & Neal Ford



A seat at the table - Mark Schwarz



Getting naked - Patrick Lencioni



Righting Software - Juval Lowy

Handson domain driven design with .NET Core - Alexey Zimarov



Radical Candor -  Kim Scott



The Coaching Habit - Michael Bungay Stanier



Mindset - Carol Dweck




Clean Architecture



Clean Coder



Clean Code



Software Engineers on their way to Pluto


Designing Reactive Systems - Hugh McKee


Data Structures Succintly Part 1 - Robert Horvick

From good to great





Release it! - Michael T. Nygard

Implementing Domain Driven Design - Vaughn Vernon




Domain Driven Design - Tackling complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans


Designing Autonomous Teams and Services - Nick Tune & Scott Millett




Scrum and XP from the trenches - Henrik Kniberg




Project to Product - Mik Kersten


Enterprise Integration Patterns - Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf


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