Reference
An annotated collection of 4 books on reference, spanning 1959 to 2015. Featuring works by William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White, Harvard Business Review (Michael E. Porter, Joan Magretta and 1 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Elements of Style
The most influential short book on English prose. Strunk wrote it as a pamphlet for his Cornell students in 1918; E. B. White revised and expanded it in 1959 and the little book has not stopped being read since. The advi…
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
The HBR anthology that collects ten articles widely considered foundational in strategy — Porter's "What Is Strategy?", Kim and Mauborgne's "Blue Ocean Strategy", Hamel and Prahalad's "Core Competence", Christensen's "Di…
Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
Magretta worked with Porter for years and wrote the book that compresses his decades of strategy writing into something readable. The value is not original argument but careful translation: Porter's ideas (five forces, g…
Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
A comparative textbook that treats Scrum, XP, Lean and Kanban as related but distinct practices, with careful attention to what each one is good at and what it is not. The book is less polemical than most agile writing,…