This is a curated collection of books and podcasts that have significantly influenced my professional journey and personal growth. Each of these resources has played a meaningful role in shaping my approach to software engineering, leadership, and personal development. I'm sharing them with the hope that they can have the same positive impact on your career as they've had on mine.
The resources are organized by topic to help you find materials most relevant to your current learning goals. Every book and podcast listed here has provided valuable insights, practical knowledge, or new perspectives that I've successfully applied in my professional life.
- Agile Testing (Lisa Crispin & J Gregory)
- More Agile Testing (Lisa Crispin & J Gregory)
- Explore It: Exploratory Testing (Elizabeth Hendrickson)
- How Google Tests Software (James A Whittaker)
- How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing (Matthew Heusser & Govind Kulkarni)
- The Little Black Book on Test Design (Rikard Edgren)
- Experience of Test Automation (Dorothy Graham)
- Lessons Learned in Software Testing (Cem Kaner, James Bach & Bret Pettichord)
- BDD in Action, Second Edition (John Ferguson Smart & Jan Molak)
- Contract Testing in Action With Pact, PactFlow, and GitHub Actions (Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott)
- The Clean Coder (Robert C. Martin)
- The Manager's Path (Camille Fournier)
- Becoming a Technical Leader (Gerald M. Weinberg)
- The Secrets of Consulting (Gerald Weinberg)
- Building the Web of Things (Dominique D. Guinard)
- The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis)
- The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim and Kevin Behr)
- Observability Engineering (Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda)
- Learning OpenTelemetry (Ted Young, Austin Parker)
- Site Reliability Engineering (Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, et al.)
- The Art of Application Performance Testing (Ian Molyneaux)
- Accelerate (Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble)
- The Mentor Leader (Tony Dungy)
- Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? (Louis V. Gerstner Jr)
- Drive (Daniel H. Pink)
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick M. Lencioni)
- The Starfish And The Spider (Ori Brafman And Rod A. Beckstrom)
- Extreme Ownership (Jocko Willink & Leif Babin)
- The New One Minute Manager (Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson)
- Leading Quality (Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer)
- The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
- The Reengineering Alternative (William E. Schneider)
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Chip Heath & Dan Heath)
- Building a StoryBrand (Donald Miller)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
- Tacit & Explicit Knowledge (Harry Collins)
- Are Your Lights On? (Donald C. Gause & Gerald M. Weinberg)
- General Systems Thinking (Gerald M. Weinberg)
- Nudge (Richard H Thaler & Cass R Sunstein)
- How to Measure Anything (Douglas W. Hubbard)
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
- How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
- Mindset (Dr Carol Dweck)
- Can't Hurt Me (David Goggins)
- Getting to Yes (Roger Fisher, William Ury)
- Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss & Tahl Raz)