What I’m Reading

I love to read. Given the choice between reading and any other activity, I will choose reading. It’s my priority.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

– Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Erasmus is a man after my own heart.

Below is a list of books I am currently reading and a list of books I have finished. Links to my related blog posts are included. You will find books on topics like soft skills, leadership, business and entrepreneurship, IT career, computer programming, etc.

A much fuller reading list including topics such as history, art, theology, and literature can be found on my civilian website: www.bloggingsam.com.

Currently reading:

  • HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers – HBR Press

Books I’ve finished in 2024:

  1. Agile Leadership Toolkit – Peter Koning
  2. HBR Guide to Office Politics – Karen Dillon
  3. Measure What Matters – John Doerr

Books I’ve finished in 2023:

  1. Becoming a Catalyst – Len Lagestee
  2. HBR Guide to Leading Teams – Mary Shapiro
  3. Escape Velocity – Doc Norton
  4. The Professional Scrum Team – Peter Götz

Books I’ve finished in 2022:

  1. The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum – Kurt Bittner, Patricia Kong, Dave West
  2. Mastering Professional Scrum – Stephanie Ockerman, Simon Reindl
  3. HBR Guide to Performance Management – Harvard Business Review editors

Books I’ve finished in 2021:

  1. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni

Books I’ve finished in 2020:

  1. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit – Mary & Tom Poppendieck || (blog post)
  2. Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
  3. Lean Change Management – Jason Little
  4. Leading Change – John P. Kotter

Books I finished in 2019:

  1. Agile Practice Guide – Project Management Institute
  2. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure – Tim Harford
  3. Team of Teams – General Stanley McChrystal 
  4. PMBOK Guide, Sixth Edition – Project Management Institute
  5. Project Management for the Technical Professional – Michael Singer Dobson
  6. The Age of Agile – Stephen Denning
  7. PMI-ACP Exam Prep – Mike Griffiths || (blog post) || (another blog post)
  8. AIQ – Nick Polson, James Scott
  9. Ethical Intelligence – Bruce Weinstein
  10. Servant Leadership – Robert K. Greenleaf

Books I finished in 2018:

  1. Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
  2. Refrigerator Rights – Dr. Will Miller
  3. Scrum Insights for Practitioners – Hiren Doshi || (blog post)
  4. Good to Great – Jim Collins
  5. How to Be Rich – J. Paul Getty
  6. Slack – Tom DeMarco
  7. Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual – John Sonmez
  8. User Story Mapping – Jeff Patton || (blog post)
  9. The Clean Coder – Robert C. Martin
  10. From Contempt to Curiosity – Caitlin Walker || (blog post) || (another blog post)