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Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall

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My 5 best reads of 2021

2021 is now officially over.

As I read a lot, I thought I’d recap my best reads (books) of the last year, in hopes that you may find something of interest on here for your 2022 reading list.

  1. Acceleerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

  2. The Knowledge-Creating Company by Ikujiro Nonaka

  3. Commitment: Novel about Managing Project Risk by Chris Matts, illustrations by Chris Geary

  4. The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim

  5. Failure is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz

  6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle


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