Books

Are you a new tech lead who wants to know what the expectations are? An experienced tech lead who needs to be more impactful? In this short book, the founder of the Tech Lead Coaching Network and experienced software manager and leader will explain the role and five core capabilities you need to be confident and impactful in the role.

Starting a career in programming can be intimidating. Whether you're switching careers, joining a bootcamp, starting a C.S. degree, or learning on your own, Your First Year in Code can help, with practical advice on topics like code reviews, resume writing, fitting in, ethics, and finding your dream job.

This book is a PDF with a collection of links to ~130+ blog posts I've written on the topic of Agile Coaching. It provides a nice, one-stop-place for you to reference all of these rich discussions about this topic. I will keep the book current as I write about Agile Coaching. So, this is a great general reference that will continue to grow!

In 2009, I published Scrum Product Ownership - Ed. 1. Then the 2'nd Ed. in 2013. This is the 3'rd edition, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the original book. It's evolved from a beginners guide to be a more balanced reference for beginners, practitioner, and expert Product Owners.

This book reviews the basic ideas in the Scrum Guide. And we give you our main suggestions to make it all work for your Team!

Was it long time ago when you last configured a local RoR environment? Do you always forget the dependencies you installed to get that RoR app running? Do you need a hand to get your local and production environment configured? If yes to all or some of the questions, read on.

You know next to nothing about Kubernetes but need to create and run your first application on Kubernetes using Docker within a week. Don't worry: this book has you covered.

A non-programmer's introduction to simulations and games. Most intro simulation books are written for programmers. Our book offers technical details on what they are and how they are built, written for someone who is not (and doesn't want to be) a programmer, but who still needs or wants to know about the inner workings of a simulation.

Playing with Java Microservices on Kubernetes and OpenShift will teach you how to build and design microservices using Java and the Spring platform. You'll learn how to build a microservices architecture with Spring Boot/Cloud, by evolving an application from a sample monolith to an architecture composed of several services.

Lenses are used (in statically typed functional programming languages) to look inside and "modify" nested data structures. They're notoriously hard to learn, but I believe that's a historical accident. This book teaches lenses in a way tailored to beginners.

Are you confident your statistical results are correct? To answer this, you need to know the concepts behind statistics. This book, and R code, focus on data with correlated errors that arise in mixed models and phylogenetic models. It will hopefully give you confidence to judge statistical methods and the results they produce. The book is free!

There is a huge number of technologies to choose from when it comes to implementing a microservices system. This brochure gives an overview of "recipes" that show how some technologies can be used and combined to implement a microservices system - including sample code on GitHub.

You should be able to spend a productive hour praying to the creator of the universe.

Explore the real roots of the Christmas holiday, and the reason for the December 25 dating.