List of books (2nd edition)

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  Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
  
  This is simply the best book about people and software that I've read to date. The authors use knowledge drawn from their years as software engineers and consultants to explore many questions about productivity. The book shows that leaders and managers should be constantly re-evaluating their practices (especially those that are taken as common sense) in order to maintain people at their balance point and, consequently, obtain the best results in the projects. Although the ideas in the book are focused primarily on software teams, they can also be applied for teams in general.
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  Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
  
  This book by Uncle Bob was published shortly after the publication of the Agile Manifesto. It presents many design patterns and demonstrates how to use them by showing their application in real projects. All case studies are presented using principles of XP, like TDD and pair programming. The examples can become a bit tiresome by the end of the book, but the sections that present the design patterns are worth reading.
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  The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
  
  A really practical book with many useful tips. Altough not extensive, the text covers a few different topics, offering advices that can easily be applied to everyday work. A light read that indeed has the potential to increase the effectiveness of any software engineer.