- Product design, customer focus and usability
- "About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper
- "The Art of Innovation : Lessons in Creativity from IDEO" by Tom Kelley
- "Bringing Design to Software" by Terry Winograd
- "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman
- "Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
- "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity" by Alan Cooper
- "Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction" by Jennifer Preece et al
- "Microsoft Windows User Experience" by The Windows User Experience Team
- "The Psychology of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
- "Usability Engineering" by Jakob Neilsen
- Software development
- "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell
- "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/readings/NoSilverBullet.html
- "No Silver Bullet Revisted", American Programmer Journal, November 1995, Brad Cox http://www.virtualschool.edu/cox/AmProTTEF.html
- "Rapid Development" by Steve McConnell
- "Writing Secure Code" by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc
- "Writing Solid Code" by Steve Maguire
- Teamwork, group dynamics, etc.
- "Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents" by Lynne C. Levesque
- "Constantine on Peopleware" by Larry Constantine
- "Dynamics of Software Development" by McCarthy
- "Getting Ready to Negotiate" by Roger Fisher & Danny Ertel
- "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers" by J. Hank Rainwater
- "How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
- "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks
- "Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams" by Tom Demarco
- "Type Talk at Work : How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job" by Janet M. Thuesen
- "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing" by Margolis & Fisher.
- "Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development" by Sharp
- Topics specific to Development tools
- "Design Patterns" by Erich Gamma et al
- "Designing Object-Oriented Software" by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock et al
- "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change" by Kent Beck
- "Lean Software Development" by Poppendieck
- "Object Oriented Analysis & Design" – Booch
- "Object Oriented Software Construction" – Meyer
- "The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master" by Andrew Hunt
- "The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition" by Gerald M. Weinberg
- "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler
- "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck – the bible of test-driven development
- Topics specific to Microsoft products and technologies
- "ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition" by Stephen Walther
- "The C# Programming Language" by Anders Hejlsberg et al
- "Programming Windows with C#" by Charles Petzold
- "Windows Forms Programming in C#" by Chris Sells
- "Windows Forms Programming with C#" by Erik Brown
- More general topics — Business and strategy
- "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore
- "Execution" by Larry Bossidy
- More general topics — Career development and work/life balance
- "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
- "The Circle of Innovation" by Tom Peters
- "The Seasons of a Man’s Life" by Daniel J. Levinson
My reading list
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