Resources

Books

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble and David Farley: a very technical reference book on how to implement continuous delivery

Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale by Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser: a great book with very pragmatic advice on how to start the transformation for IT.

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis: this book provides a lot of useful guidance on implementing DevOps practices.

The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman: this is a great book on good management that focuses on the people who work for you.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox: an easy-to-read business novel introducing you to systems thinking

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries: Eric describes how structured experimentation allows you to better solve business problems.

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford: this one is an easy-to-read novel introducing you to DevOps concepts and culture.

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen: a great book including some of the best discussion of batch size

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy: learn about modern operations for applications inspired by Google.

Podcasts and Online Resources

The Agile Revolution: an Australia-based Agile podcast (TheAgileRevolution.com)

Arrested DevOps: a podcast that provides information on upcoming conferences as well as discussion on DevOps topics (ArrestedDevOps.com)

Career Tools: a helpful podcast from Manager Tools designed to offer advice to anyone at any point on their career path (https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts?field_content_domain_tid=5)

DevOps Café: a conversational-style podcast about all things DevOps (DevOpsCafe.org)

The Economist Radio: a daily podcast for staying up to date with science and politics (https://radio.economist.com/)

Freakonomics Radio: a podcast of surprising insights from science into the world around us (http://freakonomics.com/archive/)

HBR IdeaCast: a business-focused podcast from Harvard Business Review that dives deep into one specific area per episode (http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast)

Manager Tools: great guidance for managers and directors (https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts?field_content_domain_tid=4)

The Ship Show (now defunct, but episodes are still out there): one of the earlier DevOps podcasts (TheShipShow.com)

Software Engineering Radio: an in-depth podcast on technical topics (http://www.se-radio.net/)

TED Talks: inspirational talks that often cover science and technology (https://www.ted.com/talks)