[jakubholynet]

Hi Jacques,

Thank you for your comment, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you also for summarizing the many forseeable possible discussions upfront so that we could have avoided them here.

The books were chosen by a group of five, half of us with 10-15 years of experience, so no, they aren't the latest books the author by a chance happend to read.

I admit that, as others have complained, the title might be percieved as misleading. The reason is that these are books that our company recommends to its developers and we want the developers to be something more than coders (= what most people understand under 'developer'). Though it's important to write great code, it's even more important, IMHO, that it is the right code that gets written, i.e. that the resources available are used to produce the maximal business value possible (and we believe that this cannot be planned but must be discovered based on feedback from reality - that's why lean/agile). Going quickly (great coding skills) in the wrong direction isn't progress.

Some of us have read Code Complete or The Pragmatic Programmer but it hasn't made it into the list. More of us will read it now and we will reevaluate the list afterwards. I hope it's good with you :-)