Book Recommendation
- Chris Shayan
Owned by Chris Shayan
2020 Recommendations
This is the list of 2020 best reads:Â https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2020-year-remember-forget-chris-shayan/Â
2019 Recommendations
I've read 53 books in 2019 which is slightly better than 2018 which was 49 books, I will be trying to reach to 5 books a month which is been really challenging. Probably 2020. Anyhow, here is list of some of the books I have read in 2019 and I believe they are pretty good ones.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-best-reads-2019-chris-shayan/
2018 and previous years Recommendations
Management and Leadership
| No | Name | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Samurai Mind | Christopher Hellman |
| 2 | Setting Goals | Harvard Business School Press |
| 3 | Retaining Employees | Harvard Pocket Mentor |
| 4 | Coaching People: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges | Harvard Business School Press |
| 5 | Leading by Example (Lessons Learned) | Harvard Business School |
| 6 | Leading Teams: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges | Harvard Business School |
| 7 | Performance Appraisal: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges | Harvard Business School |
| 8 | Business Model Generation | Alexander Osterwalder |
| 9 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 10 | Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant | W. Chan Kim (Author), Renee Mauborgne (Author) |
| 11 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 12 | Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution | Geoffrey A. Moore |
| 13 | Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley\'s Cutting Edge | Geoffrey A. Moore |
| 14 | Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers | Geoffrey A. Moore |
| 15 | The Innovator\'s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth | Christensen and co-author Michael E. Raynor |
| 16 | The Innovator\'s Dilemma | Clayton M. Christensen |
| 17 | e-Democracy: A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective (Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation) | |
| 18 | Harvard Business Review on Business Model Innovation (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) | Harvard Business School Press |
| 19 | Harvard Business Review on Innovation | |
| 20 | Harvard Business Review on Organizational Learning | |
| 21 | Business Without Bosses: How Self-Managing Teams Are Building High- Performing Companies | Charles C. Manz, Henry P. Sims |
| 22 | Managing Change (Pocket Mentor) | |
| 23 | Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results | Roger Connors, Tom Smith |
| 24 | Change Management Masterclass: A Step-By-Step Guide to Successful Change Management | Mike Green |
| 25 | Management Challenges for the 21st Century | Peter F. Drucker |
| 26 | Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges | C Otto Scharmer |
| 27 | Choice and Change: The Psychology of Personal Growth and Interpersonal Relationships (7th Edition) | April O'Connell, Vincent O'Connell, Lois-Ann Kuntz |
| 28 | Strategic Management and Business Analysis | David Williamson, Peter Cooke, Wyn Jenkins, Keith Michael Moreton |
| 29 | The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment | Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton |
| 30 | Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes | Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton |
| 31 | The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action | Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton |
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
| No | Name | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information | Allen Dreibelbis, Eberhard Hechler, Ivan Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Paul van Run, Dan Wolfson |
| 2 | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology | Eric A. Marks, Michael Bell |
| 3 | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise | Eric A. Marks |
| 4 | SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility | William A. Brown, Robert G. Laird, Clive Gee, Tilak Mitra |
| 5 | SOA Design Patterns (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl) | Thomas Erl |
| 6 | Enterprise Service Bus: Theory in Practice | David Chappell |
| 7 | Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices | Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama |
| 8 | SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design (Theory in Practice) | Nicolai M. Josuttis |
| 9 | Mule in Action | David Dossot, John D'Emic, Dossot David, D'Emic John |
| 10 | Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture | Michael Bell |
| 11 | Implementing SOA : Total Architecture in Practice | Paul C. Brown |
Literature
| No | Name | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 2 | The Story of a Nobody | Anton Chekhov |
| 3 | The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 4 | Answer to History | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi |
| 5 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson |
| 6 | Memories of My Melancholy Whores | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 7 | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Edward Fitzgerald, Omar Khayyam |
| 8 | How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide | Howard Mittelmark, Sandra Newman |
| 9 | Democracy in America (Signet Classics) | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| 10 | To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition | Harper Lee |
| 11 | Chasing Rumi: A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire | Roger Housden |
| 12 | The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins |
| 13 | No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam | Reza Aslan |
| 14 | The Pilgrimage | Paulo Coelho |
| 15 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
Software Engineering
| No | Name | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both | Henrik Kniberg (Author), Mattias Skarin (Contributor) |
| 2 | Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development | James O. Coplien (Author), Gertrud Bjørnvig (Author) |
| 3 | Systems Analysis and Design with UML Version 2.0: An Object-Oriented Approach | Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, David Tegarden |
| 4 | Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature) | Jez Humble, David Farley |
| 5 | Code Generation in Action | Jack Herrington |
| 6 | Working Effectively with Legacy Code | Michael Feathers |
| 7 | Coders at Work | Peter Seibel |
| 8 | User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development | Mike Cohn |
| 9 | Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Javaâ„¢ Persistence API (Expert's Voice in Java Technology) | Merrick Schincariol, Mike Keith |
| 10 | EJB 3 in Action | Debu Panda, Reza Rahman, Derek Lane |
| 11 | Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies (2nd Edition) | Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi |
| 12 | 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know | Richard Monson-Haefel |
| 13 | Struts 2 in Action | Donald Brown, Chad Michael Davis, Scott Stanlick |
| 14 | Open-Source ESBs in Action: Example Implementations in Mule and ServiceMix | Tijs Rademakers, Jos Dirksen |
| 15 | Wicket in Action | Martijn Dashorst, Eelco Hillenius |
| 16 | Flex 3 in Action | Tariq Ahmed |
| 17 | Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate | Joseph Walnes, Ara Abrahamian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Patrick A. Lightbody |
| 18 | JBoss in Action: Configuring the JBoss Application Server | Javid Jamae, Peter Johnson |
| 19 | Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Developer's Guide | Michal Bali |
| 20 | Spring in Action | Craig Walls |
| 21 | Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Books for Professionals by Professionals) | Gary Mak |
| 22 | Java Persistence with Hibernate | Christian Bauer and Gavin King |
| 23 | Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk | Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover |
| 24 | Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design | Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage |
| 25 | Refactoring to Patterns | Joshua Kerievsky |
| 26 | Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models | Martin Fowler |
| 27 | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture | Martin Fowler |
| 28 | Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design | Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios |
| 29 | Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) | Federico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden |
| 30 | The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) | Neal Ford |
| 31 | Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) | |
| 32 | Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship | Robert C. Martin |
| 33 | Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design | Alan Shalloway, James Trott |
| 34 | Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code | Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts |