Epic CTO Reading List
Top 10 Epic CTO Reading List
: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, The 4-Hour Workweek, Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, The Elements of Style
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
| Author | Tom DeMarco |
| ISBN | 0932633439 |
Two of the computer industry's most popular authors and lecturers return with a new edition of the software management book that started a revolution.With humor and wisdom drawn from years of management and consulting experience, DeMarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software...
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
| Author | Eric Ries |
| ISBN | 0307887898 |
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions...
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users....
| Author | Timothy Ferriss |
| ISBN | 0307353133 |
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: "I race motorcycles in Europe." "I ski in the Andes." "I scuba dive in Panama." "I dance tango in Buenos Aires." He has spent more than five...
Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
| Author | Steve Pavlina |
| ISBN | 1401922759 |
Despite promises of “fast and easy” results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement...
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
| Author | Eliyahu M. Goldratt |
| ISBN | 0884271781 |
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.
Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster....
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
| Author | Chip Heath |
| ISBN | 0385528752 |
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up? Chip and Dan Heath, the best-selling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a ground-breaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and...
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
| Author | William Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0060891548 |
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people...
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
| Author | Martin Fowler |
| ISBN | 0201485672 |
As the application of object technology—particularly the Java programming language—has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting...
| Author | William Strunk Jr. |
| ISBN | 0205313426 |
This book is good for the following things:
1. Propping up a short table leg
2. Lining a bird cage
3. Building a fire
4. Using as a coaster for cold drinks
I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent.
Geoff...
