Lead Developer Conference Reading List

As is always the case with great conferences, I leave with an even bigger reading list than I had pre-conference. The Lead Developer Conference in London this year was no exception.

Here are all the books that I managed to jot down that were mentioned during the talks, I am sure I missed some.

All links are to UK versions of websites when appropriate, the majority are available worldwide in digital formats.

Reading List

Each of the sections below are split between the various talks that included book references.

Patrick Kua – What I Wish I knew as a first time tech lead

• Continuous Delivery – Jez Humble, David Farley
• Lean Enterprise - Jez Humble, Joanne Moleskin, Barry O’Reilly
• The Retrospective Handbook – Patrick Kua
• Talking with Tech Leads – Patrick Kua

Heidi Waterhouse – Seven Righteous Fights & Melinda Seckington – How to Succeed at hiring without really trying

• Badass: Making Users Awesome – Kathy Sierra

Dan North – How to make a Sandwich

• Thinking in Systems – Diana Wright

Duretti Hirpa – How to get engineering teams to eat their vegetables

• Thanks for the feedback – Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
• Smarter Faster Better – Charles Duhigg
• An Everyone Culture – Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
• Super Better – Jane McGonigal

Michael Lopp – Leadership. By the Numbers

• Managing Humans – Michael Lopp
• Being Geek – Michael Lopp

Yan Cui – Tour of Language Landscape

• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks – Bruce A Tate
• Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks – Bruce A Tate, Fred Daoud, Ian Dees, Jack Moffitt

Gil Zellner – How to not burn out your monitoring team

• Incident Response – Kenneth R. van Wyk, Richard Forno. This was actually shown as part of a joke – Gil pointed this out afterwards and has recommended these resources instead! The Antifragile Organization, The Phoenix Project, and Single Person of Failure