My personal book list

I learn a lot from reading books.
This is a list of things I have read over the years.

Richtig gut rüberkommen: Wie Sie empathisch und erfolgreich kommunizieren

A German book about the art of good communication. Mirroring the other person and by that creating a symmetry to archive a higher goal is teached in the book.

An Elegant Puzzle - Systems of Engineering Management

Very dense with a lot of practical examples, guides and experience. Highly recommended!

Reinventing Organisations

Mindblowing book about the future of organisations

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fourniere

Amazing book about one career path in software. Very hands on and "close to the metal".

Scrum Body of Knowledge by SCRUMstudy™

Get up to speed to all the basics of SCRUM. Also prepared me for for the Professional Scrum Master Certification.

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois

How to enhance a company's value stream by digitally transform Operations, adopting the DevOps model.

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert C. Martin

A lot of tips for good personality traits that shape a good programmer

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Many best practises and a rare look into how Google runs inside.

Building Microservices by Sam Newman

Helped me to get my mindset into what it means to run a microservice architecture.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesse by Eric Ries

How to reduce waste with prototyping and fast feedback loops

The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond

The amazing parts of the UNIX philosophy and ecosystem.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) by Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

Amazing book about the human side of software development

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

All the fundamentals about clean code. Must read for everybody who writes software.

High Performance JavaScript (Build Faster Web Application Interfaces) by Nicholas C. Zakas

How to micro optimize your javascript code. Today I'm thinking in another direction:
,,Clean is better than clever" (Rob Pike) and ,,Premature optimization is the root of all evil" (Donald Knuth)

JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov

This book helped a lot to get a grasp on large scale javascript development

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler

This book helped me to understand software development as a professional profession and not as a hobby

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

After reading this book in 2008, I couldn't share the widely held hate on JavaScript anymore.

Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 (Windows.Net) by Matthew MacDonald

Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) by Adam Nathan

This book inspired me to write an article about how to draw a GO board game in WPF.

Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide by Michele Leroux Bustamante