A short, hand-picked list of the things I come back to and share most often. No filler. If it’s on here, it earned its place. I add to it as I find new gems.
AI in Delivery
- Kent Beck: how to think about AI. One of software’s clearest thinkers on using AI well, not just as a coding trick.
- Henrik Kniberg: AI agents from idea to deployment. A practical look at AI agents doing real delivery work, end to end.
- Simon Willison’s blog. The most useful running notes on what AI models can and can’t do, written for people who build.
- Anthropic: building effective agents. Plain, practical patterns for putting AI agents to work without over-engineering them.
Delivery and Flow
- Actionable Agile (Daniel Vacanti). The clearest thinking on flow: how long work really takes, and how to forecast it without guesswork.
- Team Topologies. How to shape teams so work flows fast, instead of getting stuck between silos.
- Flight Levels (Klaus Leopold). How to see and improve the flow of work across a whole organisation, not just one team.
- Accelerate and the DORA research. The evidence on what actually makes software teams both fast and reliable.
Modern Engineering
- Dave Farley: Continuous Delivery. Short, clear videos on how to build software well and ship it often.
- MinimumCD.org. The smallest set of habits a team needs before it can honestly say it does continuous delivery.
- The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz). How strong engineering teams really work, told from the inside.
Leading Teams
- The Manager’s Path (Camille Fournier). The go-to book for anyone stepping up to lead engineers.
- An Elegant Puzzle and StaffEng (Will Larson). Practical systems for leading and growing engineering teams.
- LeadDev. Talks and articles for engineering and delivery leaders, free to read and watch.
- roadmap.sh: engineering manager. A free, visual map of what a technical leader needs to know.
Newsletters and Podcasts I Read
- Level Up, by Pat Kua. A short, curated newsletter for people leading in tech.
- The Beautiful Mess, by John Cutler. Sharp, honest writing on product and delivery.
- Lenny’s Newsletter. How good product and tech teams actually work.
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