Martin Kleppmann – Designing Data-intensive applications
Surprisingly readable for a text of this sort of technical depth
Run your IT department like it is a factory
Gene Kim et. al. – The Phoenix project
The well-established template of ‘The Goal‘ applied to IT.
Anticipate change in products, processes and requirements; and organize for that
Despite the unavoidable buzzwords that come with the genre, Lean and Agile are actually sane and useful management principles.
Pedro Domingos – The master algorithm
The brave attempt to cover an inherently deep subject in a non-technical way.
Jill Dyche – The new IT
Align your IT department with your corporate objectives.
It seems to be impossible to write a book about IT without referring to ‘frameworks’ (= a solution a little bit more specific than a thought, but far less concrete than a plan).