Here are easy to download versions of my books and papers, for free.

Books

• Monolithic Transformation - improving how your organization builds, runs, manages software…and why you would want to for the “business.”
• The Business Bottleneck - once you’re good at software, the non-technical people (“the business”) are often the bottleneck.
• Changing Mindsets - thinking differently about how your organization uses its own software.
• Digital WTF - A collection of columns I wrote at The Register from 2014 to 2018.
• JAAS in Action - an unpublished book from 2005 on the Java Authentication and Authorization service.

Papers

Here are some “white papers” I’ve written over the years:

• The Upside-Down Economics of DIY PaaS - Seven pitfalls of building your own platform, and why you shouldn’t build your own platform.
• Draft: Platform Marketing - this is work in progress going over how organizations build internal marketing and community around their platform.
• The Legacy Trap - the problem of legacy software and a strategy for dealing with it. Co-authored with Marc Zottner.
• Developer Toil Audits
• Developer Relations & Marketing - a 2014 report I wrote on devrel while at 451 Research.
• What Does Agile Smell Like? - a 2006 report on evaluating how you’re doing agile. Written when I worked at RedMonk.