The Bookshelf
Review, analysis, and recommendations. Topics range from software
development, business, leadership, and technical practices.
14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Published: Nov 2020
Updated: Aug 2021
The 14 principles from Jeffrey Liker’s book “The Toyota Way” along
with highlights and take-aways.
Managing People for Improvement, Adapativeness, and Superior Results
Published: May 2020
Updated: May 2021
Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous
improvement and human ingenuity, through daily practice. Mike Rother
explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of Lean
and make limited progress and what it takes to make it a real
part of your culture.
A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
Published: Nov 2019
Updated: Mar 2021
This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The
Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited from the
perspective of Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she
is exiled to the Phoenix Project. This is a story about rebel
developers and business leaders working together and racing against
time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented
uncertainty…and opportunity.
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Published: Sep 2019
Updated: Mar 2021
IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of the
four successful team patterns and three interactions modes to ensure
success for IT organizations.
How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
Published: Nov 2018
Updated: Mar 2021
In Project to Product, Value Stream Network pioneer and technology
business leader Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework―a new
way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery.
For Industry, Government, Education
Published: Oct 2018
Updated: Jul 2021
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation
underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming’s Out of
the Crisis.
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Published: Apr 2018
Updated: Mar 2021
Accelerate measures software delivery performance—and what drives
it—using four years of groundbreaking research and rigorous
statistical methods.
How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Published: Apr 2018
Updated: Mar 2021
Building on a career-long legacy of sharing the power of OKRs with
established and emerging leaders alike, Measure What Matters
includes a broad range of first-person accounts that demonstrate the
focus, ambition, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so
many great organizations.
A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Published: Feb 2018
Updated: Mar 2021
In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The
Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a
deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps
Handbook.
Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
Published: Jan 2018
Updated: Mar 2021
A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of
dollars — but can be avoided with simple changes to design and
architecture. This new edition of the best-selling industry standard
shows you how to create systems that run longer, with fewer
failures, and recover better when bad things happen. New coverage
includes DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
Stability antipatterns have grown to include systemic problems in
large-scale systems. This is a must-have pragmatic guide to
engineering for production systems.
Support Constant Change
Published: Sep 2017
Updated: Mar 2021
The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing
a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and
paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core
engineering practices for software development have created the
foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along
with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it
evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new
way to think about architecture and time.
How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
Published: Oct 2016
Updated: Mar 2021
Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed
productivity goals through DevOps practices with this non-fiction
follow-up to the bestselling The Phoenix Project.
How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition
Published: May 2010
Updated: Aug 2021
In The High-Velocity Edge, the reissued edition of five-time Shingo
Prize winner Steven J. Spear’s critically acclaimed book Chasing the
Rabbit, Spear describes what sets market-dominating companies apart
and provides a detailed framework organizations can leverage to
produce off-the-charts performance.