expandMind : THE COMPLETE LIST OF INTERESTING BOOKS
Errors are useful, innovate using them.
As software test practitioners we revel in finding bugs, and as managers and engineers we are focused on fixing these.
Necessary but not Sufficient
I have been a great fan of Dr Goldratt having read all this books, my favourite being his first book “The Goal”. This book “Necessary but not Sufficient” is written as a “business novel” and shows the fictional application of the Theory of Constraints to Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operations software and organizations using that software.
Black box thinking
Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
Siddhartha Mukherjee investigates the most perplexing cases of his career ultimately identifying three principles that govern modern medicine.
Approximate thinking
A beautiful book that taught me “Approximate thinking” of how to rapidly approximate and get facts to analyse further.
Sketchnote
Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don’t require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.