[Share] Top 50 new software development books

It's been nine months since I created the top 100 Best Software Engineering books, ever, with the best booksEverReleased. I still refer to it when I want to pick up a timeless classic.

But last week I suddenly had the desire to know whatNewBest software development books are. And I couldn't find any such list. So, of course, I made it myself.

In this post I proudly presentTop 50NewSoftware development books, WhereNewMeans "less than two years old". This list was created using a weighed mix of the following criteria:

• Number of ratings on Amazon.com
• Average rating on Amazon.com
• Number of ratings on goodreads.com
• Averate rating on goodreads.com

Note: The time that has passed since a book's release date waspart of the calculation. for example: a book that got three 5-starratings in just four months is listed higher than a book that got thesame ratings in a much longer period of time.

Some other things worth pointing out:

• Like in the previous edition, I ignored all technology-specifictitles. Only books about generic software engineering topics wereallowed on the list.
• I discarded all re-releases of books that had earlier editions before 2007. the only exception is making things happen, because Scott berkun changed the title of his book. and because he's a nice bloke who granted an interview with me.
• Thomas ERL is on this listThreeTimes (#6, #17, #24). He didn't pay me for that, unfortunately. He just did it all by himself.
• Three books released in 2009 were already able to get listed here, which is quite an achievement: Agile testing (#28), 97 things every software impact ect shold know (#33 ), and scrumban (#49 ).
• There are 22 books from 2007 on this list, 25 books from 2008, and 3 from 2009.
• While making this list I drank 8 cups of coffee, and consumed a full bag of Belgian chocolates.
• This must be the first list of mine where Steve McConnell isNotListed.

I hope you will enjoy the results...

	Title/author (s)	Release
1	Dreaming in code: two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent Software Scott Rosenberg	26-1-2007
2	Clean code: A Handbook of agile software craftsmanship Robert C. Martin	11-8-2008
3	Pragmatic thinking and learning: refactor your wetware Andy hunt	15-8-2008
4	Managing humans: biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager Michael lopp	12-6-2007
5	Beautiful code: Leading programmers explain how they think Andy Oram, Greg Wilson	26-6-2007
6	SOA principles of service design Thomas ERL	28-7-2007
7	The productive programmer Neal Ford	3-7-2008
8	Smart and gets things done: Joel Spolsky's concise guide to finding the best technical talent Joel Spolsky	31-5-2007
9	Making things happen: Mastering Project Management Scott berkun	25-3-2008
10	Release it! : Design and deploy production-ready Software Michael Nygard	30-3-2007
11	The art of agile development James shore, Shane warden	26-10-2007
12	Service-Oriented Modeling: service analysis, design, and architecture Michael Bell	25-2-2008
13	Scaling software Agility: Best practices for large elastic ISES Dean leffingwell	8-3-2007
14	The annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on Computability and the Turing Machine Charles Petzold	16-6-2008
15	Sketching user experiences: getting the design right and the right design Bill Buxton	11-4-2007
16	Continuous integration: improving software quality and risk cing risk Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew GLOVER	9-7-2007
17	SOA Design Patterns Thomas ERL	23-10-2008
18	The developer's Guide to debugging Thorsten gr ötker, Ulrich holtmann, Holger Keding, Markus wloka	11-8-2008
19	Agile adoption patterns: a roadmap to organizational success Amr elssamadisy	7-2008
20	Manage it! : Your Guide to modern, pragmatic project management Johanna Rothman	7-6-2007
21	The principles of Project Management Meri Williams	13-3-2008
22	Introduction to Information Retrieval Christopher D. Manning, prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Sch ütze	7-2008
23	Head first software development Dan pilone, Russ miles	11-1-2007
24	Web Service Contract Design and versioning for SOA Thomas ERL, anish karmarkar, Priscilla Walmsley
25	The art of Multiprocessor Programming Maurice Herlihy, NIR Shavit	29-2-2008
26	Scaling lean & agile development: Thinking and organizational tools for large-scale scrum Craig larman, Bas vodde	22-12-2008
27	SOA in Practice: The art of Distributed System Design Niclai M. josutis	24-8-2007
28	Agile testing: A Practical Guide for testers and agile teams Lisa cripin, Janet Gregory	5-1-2009
29	The Business Analyst's Handbook Howard podeswa	4-11-2008
30	Scrum and XP from the trenches Henrik kniberg	4-10-2007
31	Xunit test patterns: refactoring test code Gerard meszaros	31-5-2007
32	Applied SOA: service-oriented architecture and design strategies Michael Rosen, Boris lublinsky, Kevin T. Smith, Marc J. Balcer	13-6-2008
33	97 things every software architect shold know Richard Monson-haefel	13-2-2009
34	Perfect software: and other comprehensions about testing Gerald M. weberger	29-8-2008
35	Expert product management: advanced techniques, tips and Strategies for Product Management & Product Marketing Brian Lawley	10-10-2007
36	The Enterprise and scrum Ken schwaber	13-6-2007
37	Algorithms in a nutshell George Heineman, Gary pollice, Stanley selkow	1-11-2008
38	The software project manager's bridge to agility Michelin sliger, stacia Broderick	29-5-2008
39	Designing Web interfaces: Principles and patterns for rich interactions Bill Scott, Theresa Neil	15-1-2008
40	If I only changed the software, why is the phone on fire? Lisa K. Simone	23-3-2007
41	Puzzles for programmers and pros Dennis shasha	7-5-2007
42	Managing the test people Judy McKay	27-4-2007
43	Practical Project Initiation: a handbook with tools Karl E. wiegers	8-8-2007
44	Simple ubuntures for complex replicises Roger sessions	19-5-2008
45	How we test software at Microsoft Alan page, Ken Johnston, BJ rollison	16-8-2008
46	The one page project manager for IT projects Clark a. Campbell	4-8-2008
47	The art of lean Software Development: a practical and incremental approach Curt Hibbs, Steve jewett, Mike Sullivan	15-12-2008
48	Code leader: using people, tools, and processes to build successful software Patrick cauldwell	5-5-2008
49	Scrumban-Essays on Kanban systems for lean Software Development Corey Ladas	12-1-2009
50	Software Requirement patterns Stephen withall	13-6-2007

The book getting results from software development teams from Lawrence J. Peters (8-6-2008) wowould have been#51. But alas, I have to stop somewhere...

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