Overview:

This book is drawn from a decade of research and highlights the human and organisational dimension of software improvement processes and software project management, be it based on CMM or ISO 9000 or the Rational Unified Process. The contents of the book focuses on practices based on common-sense.

Jim and Neil, the authors have put forward general but concrete principles – every pattern is its own built-in example. Grady Booch, IBM Fellow describes the book as remarkably wise, full of pragmatic advice drawn from real projects. He adds that software development is a human experience and Jim and Neil have captured the essence of that experience.  

It is a good read for a layperson, too. 

Authors:

James Coplien

Neil B. Harrison

Published In: 

26th July 2004

Overview:

This book was originally published in 2015 in order to provide guidance on change grounded in the latest science for the leaders. The new edition is published in the year 2019 in which the author takes readers through change mythology involving new age change ideas and pop psychology up to the present. 

The author covers how to successfully manage change in the changing business environments – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA). The major topics of the book are ‘Change Agility’, ‘Change Strategy’, ‘Change Tactics’, and ‘Change Leadership’. After reading the book, you will be left with igniting thoughts new ideas such as;

• Framework for analysing change failure
• The psychology of risk
• Cognitive biases affecting change and its effect
• Trusting guts vs trusting models
• Change myths that most people still believe

Author:

Paul Gibbons

Published In:

2019 (2nd Edition)