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Rework
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Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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Rolling Rocks Downhill: How to Ship YOUR Software Projects On Time, Every Time
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Clean Architecture
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business
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The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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Freedom from Command and Control
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Utopia For Realists
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
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The Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
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Kevlin Henney (Editor)
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
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In the Midst of Life
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author)
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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Patrick Lencioni (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 138,987 ratings
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