Righting Software

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1. leetroutJul 2024
   It is a phenomenal book for what it is. It was the required reading for the class I taught at UNC in 2019. I am teaching a workshop in September and bought a copy for every attendee because I believe it is that important for people to be exposed to his ideas and how he approaches things.

   I was also impressed with "Righting Software" and the premise of volatility based decomposition but it is not nearly as approachable as Ousterhout's book.

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2. belfalasJan 2023
   Many more beyond this but these are my for sures.

   People / Soft Skills:

   * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

   * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg

   * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

   * Nurtured by Love - Shinici Suzuki

   * Turn the Ship Around! - David Marquet

   * Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss

   http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

   http://dhemery.com/articles/managing_yourself_through_change...

   Macro Skills:

   * Toyota Production System - Taiichii Ohno

   * Workplace Management - Taiichii Ohno

   * Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

   * Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge

   Agile:

   * Extreme Programming, Explained (2nd ed.) - Kent Beck (the annotated bibliography is a goldmine)

   * Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick

   Programming:

   * Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck

   * Test-Driven Development, By Example - Kent Beck

   * Refactoring (both editions) - Martin Fowler

   * Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky

   * Practical Object Oriented Design - Sandi Metz

   * Functional Programming in Scala - Chiusano & Bjarnason

   * Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests - Freeman & Pryce ("The Goose Book")

   * Modern Java in Action - Raoul-Gabriel Urma

   * Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz

   * Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava

   Architecture:

   * Righting Software - Juval Lowy

   * Release It! - Michael Nygard

   * Site Reliability Engineering - Beyer, et al. ("The SRE Book”)

   * Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans

   * Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison and Mia Slay

   * Fun with a Pencil - Andrew Loomis

   Design:

   * All books by Edward Tufte, especially “The visual display of quantitative information”

   * The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst

   * Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

   * Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

   * Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander

   * The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander

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3. leetroutDec 2022
   A Philosophy of Software Design

   https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/book.php

   Righting Software

   https://rightingsoftware.org/

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4. belfalasNov 2022
   Have you read "Righting Software" by Juval Lowy? You might really enjoy it based on your feedback above and here. There is a project design aspect that goes into this kind of planning (or at least reminds me of what you wrote).
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5. TimButterfieldAug 2022
   You may wish to take a look at the book, Righting Software, by Juval Löwy. It is not specific to any particular application or language, but can be generally applied to different projects and systems.

   https://www.amazon.com/dp/0136524036

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6. mikevmFeb 2022
   I suggest looking into: https://www.amazon.com/Righting-Software-Juval-L%C3%B6wy/dp/...

   It's very unorthodox, but cuts through a lot of the bullshit.

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