The Ask me anything with Lisa Crispin was awesome yesterday. I can’t believe I’ve never read Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson. I ordered it from amazon and avidly reading it this afternoon.
What other books can I get my hands on?
thanks for reading my first post I hope to get more involved over the upcoming weeks.
Here is a partial list. While many not appear to be about testing, I found testing to be a very social activity and some of these are good reads for that.
7 Habits – Stephen Covey
Agile Testing – Crispin and Gregory
Beautiful Testing – Goucher
How to Be Interesting – Hagy
How We Test Software at Microsoft – Page, et al
How Google Tests Software – Whitaker
The Pragmatic Programmer – Hunt and Thomas
The Invisible Gorilla – Chabris, et al
Lessons Learned in Software Testing – Kaner, et al
Introduction into General Systems Thinking – Weinberg
Perfect Software – Weinberg
Visual Meetings – Sibbet
Blink – Gladwell
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge – Collins
The Secrets of Consulting – Weinberg
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Carnegie
Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Failure is not an Option – Gene Kranz
How to Observe Software Systems – Jerry Weinberg
Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Washington’s Crossing – David Hackett Fischer
Stiff – Mary Roach
The Clean Coder – Bob Martin
Becoming a Change Artist – Jerry Weinberg
Secrets of Consulting – Jerry Weinberg
Crucial Conversations – Kerry Patterson, et al
642 Things to Draw – Chronicle Books
The Signal and the Noise – Silver
The Artist’s Way – Cameron
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Kahneman
Wow, so many!!! Thanks for taking the time to type all of this out. Have you got a top 5 out of those? Id like to take a few on my hols. The visual meetings one has peeked my interest.