9 must-read engineering books like An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

By: Will Larson

4.10

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o…

If you liked the engineering plot in An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt

1. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Unknown Binding

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear… read more

Similar categories in Richard P. Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove

2. High Output Management

By: Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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3. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

By: Michael Lopp

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Managing Humansis a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's web site, Rands in Repose. Dra… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lopp's Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership

4. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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5. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

By: Tom DeMarco , Timothy R. Lister

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two of the computer industry's most popular authors and lecturers return with a new edition of the … read more

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6. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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7. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

By: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-… read more

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8. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

By: Betsy Beyer , Chris Jones , Jennifer Petoff , None

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or impleme… read more

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9. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

By: Gene Kim , George Spafford , Kevin Behr

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bi… read more

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10. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

By: Camille Fournier

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more

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11. Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Predict… read more

Similar categories in Ajay Agrawal's Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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12. Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By: Nicole Forsgren

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Forsgren's Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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13. The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

By: Michael Lopp

4.18

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who pra… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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14. Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

By: Matthew Skelton

4.21

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and susta… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Skelton's Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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15. The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

By: Tanya Reilly

4.40

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But tr… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Reilly's The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
"What will Future You wish that Present You had done?"

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

"Yes, you can be an introvert. No, you can't be a jerk."

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

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16. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

By: Will Larson

4.10

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o… read more

Similar categories in Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson

17. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

By: Claire Hughes Johnson

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Hughes Johnson's Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • management
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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18. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

By: Titus Winters

4.20

Format: 599 pages, Paperback

The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more

Similar categories in Titus Winters's Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • programming
  • engineering
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • technology
"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

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19. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

By: Kent Beck

3.95

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into ma… read more

Similar categories in Kent Beck's Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner

20. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

By: Sarah Drasner

4.20

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Drasner's Engineering Management for the Rest of Us book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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21. Resilient Management

By: Lara Hogan

4.38

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming—but you don’t have to fake it to make it, … read more

Similar categories in Lara Hogan's Resilient Management book and Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership

14 Best nonfiction books like An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Michael Lopp

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Ajay Agrawal

4.24

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17 best-selling nonfiction books like Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton

Transform Your Habits

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

4.15

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Gene Kim , Jez Humble , Patrick Debois , John Willis

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Michael Lopp

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren

4.06

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