Agreed. I can’t recommend Peopleware enough. It is common sense, humane reasoning applied to software teams. Sadly, I read Peopleware long before I ever became

Agreed. I can’t recommend Peopleware enough. It is common sense, humane reasoning applied to software teams. Sadly, I read Peopleware long before I ever became a manager, and it made me very attuned to being treated badly and being given ineffective tools or support (e.g. crappy open plan seating arrangements instead of private offices). Peopleware will open your mind to the obviousness of productivity-first thinking and accomodating basic, inescapable human needs. Which can make you reflexively sad when you see how much of our industry steamrolls these ideas in favor of idiotic open plan disasters, hazing-focused interview barriers to entry, unrealistic mandates for Agile-style estimation and work tracking, etc.