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We recommend: Hans Rosling — 'The best stats you've ever seen'

On the 7th of February, it will be 7 years since we’ve lost the great Hans Rosling. We wanted to remind everyone the brilliance of this wonderful…

Dec 17

We recommend: Camille Fournier — 'The Manager's Path'

When I became an engineering manager, Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path was a must-read—and rightly so.

Dec 10 •

We recommend: Daniel Kahneman — 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman is a classic when it comes to our understanding of the human mind.

Nov 19 •

We recommend: Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson — 'Rework'

How to work smart

Nov 5 •

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We recommend: Oren Ellenbogen — 'Leading Snowflakes'

Practical tips to help improve your engineering manager skills

Oct 22 •

We recommend: Dominica DeGrandis — 'Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Workflow'

Visibility is the first step to measurability

Oct 8 •

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We recommend: Kent Beck — '3X Explore, Expand, Extract'

Your decision-making process changes with the scale

Sep 24 •

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We recommend: Henrik Kniberg — 'Focus (or Stop Starting, Start Finishing)'

Parallelizing productivity: The unbearable cost of constant context switching

Sep 10 •

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We recommend: Masaaki Imai — 'Gemba Kaizen'

Never sacrifice quality for delivery, quality must always come first!

Aug 27 •

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Book recommendation: Atul Gawande — 'Checklist manifesto'

A guidebook on how to avoid preventable mistakes and design high-quality procedures.

Aug 13 •

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We recommend: Randy Nelson — 'Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age'

Key traits in building collaborative teams

Jul 30 •

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We recommend: Dietrich Dörner — 'The Logic of Failure'

How humans fail to deal with complexity and what to do about it.

Jul 16 •

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