DC Agile Software Management Book Club

Okay, I’m at it again. I’ve created a book club to replace another that had gone into hibernation. This one is going to be for these audiences:

- PM’s broadly defined (product managers, program managers, in short “bosses of software developers”)

- Tech leads (The senior developer who has no official organizational power)

- Developers on teams

- Developers who happen to have a boss

Topicwise, it will cover

- Agile software development (as opposed to SDLC, CMMI, waterfall and other process-above-all exercises)

- Software development management

- Teamwork

- Personal productivity using techniques borrowed from the world of software development management

Here is the book list:

1) Kanban, David J. Anderson $10

2) Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty, $17 (watch out for similarly titled book!)

3) Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams , Osherove, $23

4) Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process, Rubin $20

5) Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others Brian W. Fitzpatrick $10

6) Peopleware $17

7) Mythical Man Month, $20, $5 used

8) Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art , $17

9) Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, Tonianne DeMaria Barry , Jim Benson, $10

10) Smart and Gets Things Done, $10

11) The Dream Team Nightmare: Boost Team Productivity Using Agile Techniques, Portia Tung (note: choose your own adventure book), $13

12) Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, $10

13) Slack,Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency, $8,/ $0.01