Recommended reading
Reports and case studies
- Peter F. Conklin: Enrollment Management: Managing the Alpha AXP Program (IEEE Software July 1996, Vol. 13, No. 4) also free from Digital Technical Journal (Volume 4, Number 4)
Agile & Lean Software Development
- Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
- Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck: Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
- Alistair Cockburn: Agile Software Development: Software Through People
- Ken Schwaber: Agile Project Management with SCRUM
- Schwaber & Beedle: Agile Software Development with SCRUM (Agile Software Development)
- Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (first edition)
- Kent Beck: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (second edition)
Agile & Lean Business
- Womack, Jones & Roos: The Machine that changed the world
- Womack & Jones: Lean Solutions
- Michael Kennedy: Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
- Keith McFarland: Should You Build Strategy Like You Build Software? (MIT Sloan Review Spring 2008)
- Shpilberg, Berez, Puryear and Shah: Avoiding the Alignment Trap in IT (MIT Sloan Review Fall 2007)
Learning and Change
- Allan Kelly: Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile
- Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline
- Nonaka & Takeuchi: The Knowledge Creating Company
- John Kotter: Leading Change
Business and IT
- Michael Gentle: IT Success!
Financial
- Financial Times - The best way to keep up to date with financial markets
- Economist - Indepth analysis of markets and business
- Colin Chapman: How Stock Markets Work - an introduction to financial markets
- John C Hulll: Options, Futures and Other Derivatives