Working Effectively with Legacy Code

I have all of these on my shelf. Fantastic reads. * Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck * Clean Code and The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin * Soft Skills by John Sonmez (1st edition) * Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas * Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers * The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks (Selfish plug) Additionally, I wrote my own book concerning the entire industry, from just starting out to becoming a self employed consultant when you get sick of fulltime work - all soft skills from my decade or so of the industry, as well - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B43V1JJW

Clean Code - Robert Martin. <-- this is without a doubt the number one book to read in my opinion Working With Legacy Code - Michael Feathers

How to win friends and influence people. Helped me solve some approaches to handling people in general and highlighted a few approaches that I had been taking that were actively causing me problems. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald Weiberg. [1] Helped me understand why technical problems are rarely just technical. Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers [2]. Practicing some of the techniques in this helped me get my foot in the door in a job long ago where one of the interview scenarios was "This is broken, go ahead and fix it.". I recommend reading this for anyone working on a code base that's been around for a while. -- [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc... (https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Successfully-ebook/dp/B004J35LHQ/) [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Mar... (https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin-ebook/dp/B005OYHF0A/)

Working Effectively With Legacy Code: http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Mart... (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin-ebook/dp/B005OYHF0A/)

Working Effectively with Legacy Code, by Michael Feathers