What Success Means to Me
Success is waking up knowing that what you do makes the people around you, and yourself, happier. No complex formula. Just consistency over perfection, and building habits that align with what matters.
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Ship, Show, Ask
In fast-moving teams, one of the biggest tensions we face is this: How do we keep shipping without compromising quality or collaboration? The traditional approach to pull requests often slows things down. We wait hours—o…
Digital Minimalism
In an era dominated by constant connectivity, the concept of digital minimalism emerges as a refreshing antidote. Coined by Cal Newport, this philosophy isn't about rejecting technology but rather about using it with gre…
What Is Waterfall?
Waterfall is like following a straight path where you move from one step to the next in a defined order — like water flowing down a waterfall through different stages. The problem is that each step can take a lot of time…
Deployments on Fridays
I have heard multiple times, from various people, the idea of panic towards deploying on Fridays. How good is that idea of banning the day before weekend from delivering new value to our clients or customers?
The Lean Startup
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Invincible
Marcos Vazquez combines stoic philosophy with modern psychology to train your mind for clarity, determination, and discipline in the face of adversity.
Never Ending Loop
It is hard sometimes to get to bed with the mind blank because, more often than not, I think about my next reading, learning, talk, or what I will write this or next month.
Learned Helplessness
Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive beyond their control. It was initially thought to be caused by the subject's acceptance of their powerlessness by discontinuing…
Effective Remote Work
An effective remote work environment is about treating everyone as remote, with everyone in mind having the same level, equality, and information.
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Have You Always Been Like This?
Have you always been like this? Constantly reading books, writing blog posts, public speaker in conferences and meet-ups, learning in your private time, etc...? The short answer is: no, and let me tell you how I ended up…
Adapt or die
Told through the story of one bold company (People First IT), Adapt or Die takes readers through the unparalleled business system known as The Algorithm of Success that has the potential to inspire, ignite, and affect ch…
Ignoring Scrum to Get More Agile?
People become slaves to systems that are supposed to help. Boring meetings are killing agile. Meetings require active participation from everyone. Otherwise, you might not be essential to that meeting, and rather use you…
Continuous Discovery Habits
Continuous Discovery Habits (2021) explores how product managers and designers can keep making a positive impact on their customers’ lives. It explores an optimal decision-making process for product teams, so that they c…
The Great CEO Within
Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback.
The Project Management Triangle
A triangle of time, quality and cost. it's an indicator that these three parameters are interconnected. You can fix one or two of them, but not three.
Bikeshedding
People within an organization typically give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.
Leadership is Language
In this book, the former submarine commander Captain L. David Marquet dives deep into one of the most investigated marine disasters, the sinking of the El Faro, and surfaces with new ideas on leadership and language.
Red Work vs Blue Work
Blue Work and Red Work are concepts that David Marquet describes in his book 'Leadership is Language. Both require different mindsets and both have different languages.
Peopleware
Software development is about people: when, how and where they can best work together. Not about programming languages or tools. Not about fast computers, networks or internet access.
Open-Source Software
What is Open-Source Software (OSS)? What are their benefits? How can you start contributing to any OSS? Pet projects? Knowledge sharing? Why all of these?
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way.
Who moved my cheese?
This book presents a tale inside the main story that consists of 4 characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little persons, Hem and Haw.
The Process Itself Is the Goal
No goal should be an achievement on its own, but the process itself that helps us to go in the direction of these goals.
Scrum
Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget. Scrum shows you how. It explains how to define precisely what it is that you are seeking …
High Output Management
Andy Grove's management classic from Intel, covering managerial leverage, meetings, decision-making, motivation, and how to maximize team output in technology organizations.
How to Improve Your Tech-Talk (or Any Other Presentation)
We have found ourselves attending a meeting that felt like we were wasting our time with a monologue that is either hard to follow or doesn't seem so interesting as it could. Let's fix this.
Atomic Habits
People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions. He calls them a…
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg explores the science behind habit formation, showing how habits work, why they exist, and practical strategies to transform them for personal and professional growth.
Sprint
Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countles…
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in this book, you'll expand your skills by adopting …