Ask HN: I'm building a small library for my team. Which books should it have?

#1

Post by varlock » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

I work as the team lead of a QA team and I wanted to create a small library for people in my team - and others', of course - to expand their knowledge outside the technical domain (so, no language reference books, programming cookbooks, etc.).

As an example, I was thinking of adding "The Ideal Team Player" by Lencioni, which I found useful to use as a loose framework when hiring people.

What are your "must-read" books that I should put on this bookshelf?

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: I'm building a small library for my team. Which books should it have?

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Post by rcarr » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 2:24 PM UTC

Anything you can get your hands on written by Gerald Weinberg.

This is a good place to start:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quality-Software-Management-Systems...

They’re all available as ebooks as well, I think the QSM series was split up and went on to become this:

https://leanpub.com/b/qualitysoftware

And then these ones have the same titles as their paperback counterparts:

https://leanpub.com/b/peopleskillssoftbutdifficult

Re: Ask HN: I'm building a small library for my team. Which books should it have?

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Post by varlock » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

rcarr wrote: post #2

Anything you can get your hands on written by Gerald Weinberg. This is a good place to start: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quality-Software-Management-Systems... They’re all available as ebooks as well, I think the QSM series was split up and went on to become this: https://leanpub.com/b/qualitysoftware And then these ones have the same titles as their paperback counterparts: https://leanpub.com/b/peopleskillssoftbutdiff…

Thank you, great pointers!