Below you can find a selection of books that our team loves and takes inspiration from. The books are in no particular order:
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Team Topologies is the leading approach to organizing business and technology teams for fast flow, providing a practical, step-by‑step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction.
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we’ve been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn’t matter―that it can’t provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations.
DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift: Deliver continuous business value through people, processes, and technology
A practical guide to making the best use of the OpenShift container platform based on the real-life experiences, practices, and culture within Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
- Learn how modern software companies deliver business outcomes that matter by focusing on DevOps culture and practices
- Adapt Open Innovation Labs culture and foundational practices from the Open Practice Library
- Implement a metrics-driven approach to application, platform, and product, understanding what to measure and how to learn and pivot
The Kubernetes Workshop: Learn how to Build and Run Highly Scalable Workloads on Kubernetes
Thanks to its extensive support for managing hundreds of containers that run cloud-native applications, Kubernetes is the most popular open-source container orchestration platform that makes cluster management easy. This workshop adopts a practical approach to get you acquainted with the Kubernetes environment and its applications.
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same way again.
The Unicorn Project, A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruptions
This highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development.
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
DevSecOps: A leader’s guide to producing secure software without compromising flow, feedback and continuous improvement
A structured approach to integrating security capabilities into your engineering process is an essential requirement for producing secure software without compromising the integrity of the DevOps framework.
User Story Mapping: Building Better Products Using Agile Software Design
User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features.
Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process.
Learning DevSecOps: Integrating Continuous Security Across Your Organization
Learn how to implement continuous security throughout your entire software development and delivery pipeline. With this hands-on book, developers, SREs, tech leads, and security engineers will learn how to combine their security process with their DevOps culture. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the best DevSecOps practices, from the construction of safer container images to the hardening of orchestrators to the methods for securing your cloud environment.
Introducing EventStorming by Alberto Brandolini
At first look, EventStorming is deceptively simple: just have a long paper roll available, and a virtually unlimited stock of coloured sticky notes and start modelling problems that looked too big to be modelled. But the ability to visually mastering large scale complexity opens the way to many interesting outcomes.
Beyond Agile: How To Run Faster, Smarter and Less Wasteful Projects
We’re in the midst of a ‘project failure crisis’ and something needs to be done. Following the journey of software development through the 20th and 21st centuries, this book outlines a new, post-Agile methodology for creating great digital solutions in a way that’s faster, better and less wasteful. Learn from some of the world’s best companies and discover how you can go Beyond Agile.
