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Complete separation of duties: execs in charge of strategy, managers in charge of setting objectives, engineers free to execute their work as they see best.
Pini Reznik • Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation
Effective Corporate Leadership
Jim Collins • BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company
Most people who do project work are pretty good at pattern recognition and derived hunches (“I sense that this project is headed for disaster”), but not so good at abstracting their patterns into a more usable form. Thus this book.
Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
functionality, scalability, reliability, security and performance
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
The key to pursuing speed and adaptability at the same time is to view software technology as a continuously evolving asset, instead of something that is built once and then maintained.
Jim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose,