See 2018’s Things to read and watch
See 2016’s Things to read and watch
Each year I put a list of things I believe are worth reading and watching in the year. Here is my list for 2017.
General Videos
- Seeing Spaces by Bret Victor, see notes
- 8th Lights Video on Craftmanship
- We are Pluralsight - 2 rules of the company
People & Life
- Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
- Inside the mind of a master procrastinator by Tim Urban
- The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
- Millenials in the Workplace by Simon Sinek
- How will you measure your life - Clay Christensen
- The Power Paradox: How we gain and lose
- The danger of silence
- The power of vulnerability - Brene Brown
- The power of empathy - Helen Riess
Leadership
- Interview with Edgar Schein - Culture, Leadership & Humble Inquiry
- Edgar Schein - Humble Inquiry
- The constant life of a tech lead - Patrick Kua
- Want less conflict? Do nothing - Piotr Prokopowicz
Team Improvement
- Better: Fearless Feedback for Software Teams - Erika Carlson
- Patterns of Effective Teams by Dan North at Goto 2017
- Continous Retrospectives by Linda Rising at Goto 2016
- Creating space to be awesome by Meri Williams
- Systems Thinking by Peter Senge, see notes
- 5 Dysfunctions of a team by Patrick Lencioni, see notes
- Psychological Safety & High Performance by Joshua Kerievsky
- The Trick To Surviving A High-Stakes, High-Pressure Job? Try A Checklist
General Development Videos
- How to make your culture work with agile - Schneider Model
- The rationale of Continous Delivery by Dave Farley
- Modern Agile by Joshua Keriesky at AgileNZ 2016
- Lean from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
- Learning Velocity by Jeff Patton
- Integrated tests are a scam by J.B. Rainsberger
- Software Craftmanship - Sandro Macuso
- XP at 20 - Kent Beck
- Explaining Agile - Martin Fowler and Neal Ford
- Managing a managerless project - Fred George, see notes
- Agile is dead - Dave Thomas
- Rethinking the Developer Career Path - Randall Koutnik at The Lead Developer UK 2017
Architecture
- Talking Arcitecture by Kevlin Henney
- Why we need architects and architecture by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock at YOW! 2011
- Clean Architecture and Design
Programmer Videos
- All the little things by Sandi Metz
- Seven ineffective coding habits of many programmers by Kevlin Henney at NDC2014
- Code that fits your brain by Adam Tornhill at NDC2014
- Functional Programming Patterns by Scott Wlaschin at NDC2014
- The deep synergy between testability and good design by Michael Feathers at NDC2010
- The case against TDD by Eric Smith at 8th Light University
- The future of programming by Bret Victor
Collaboration
Books
- Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
- Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Eric Ries
- All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
- Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Design It - from Programmer to Software Architect
- Discover to Deliver
