Sunday, May 5, 2013

Books mentioned at SATURN 2013

Having recently attended the SEI/Carnegie Mellon SATURN conference, and having taken copious notes, I thought I'd assemble a list of books I heard mentioned in the various talks:

Managed Evolution: A Strategy for Very Large Information Systems
Stephan Murer (Author), Bruno Bonati (Author)

Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach
George H. Fairbanks

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
Scott Berkun

Software Arhcitecture for Developers
Simon Brown

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Mary Poppendiak mentioned:
The Road to Excellence
K Anders Ericsson

Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
Gary Klein

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath (Author), Dan Heath (Author)

Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works 
E. Tory Higgins

Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise
Scott Ambler (Author), Mark Lines (Author)

Mentioned by Phillipe Krutchen:
Games People Play
Eric Berne (Author)
http://www.ericberne.com/

Software Engineering Principles and Practice
By Hans Van Vliet

Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management
Edward De Bono (Author)

The Dark Side of Software Engineering: Evil on Computing Projects
Johann Rost (Author), Robert L. Glass (Author)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Philippe said something along the lines of "blinking without experience yields random results".

Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children, Second Edition
Charles T. Betz

Also, here's a link to the Architectural Concepts podcast episode discussing some of the conference highlights: http://www.architecturecast.net/2013/05/highlights-from-saturn-2013-conference.html