Appendix C — Reading path
Study in the order of the rollout plan (Appendix B): each topic has a short read to apply right away and a deeper one for later. The readings are free, except for the books shown in italics.
| # | Topic | To apply now | To go deeper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub Projects | GitHub Docs: Projects | Shape Up, a cycle-based method for small teams |
| 2 | Agile | The Scrum Guide (about 15 pages) | Kanban, by David J. Anderson |
| 3 | Code flow | GitHub flow and Conventional Commits | — |
| 4 | SaaS architecture | The Twelve-Factor App | — |
| 5 | Continuous delivery | DORA (the four metrics) | Accelerate, by Forsgren, Humble, and Kim |
| 6 | Operations and reliability | Google SRE books, chapters on monitoring and postmortems | Site Reliability Engineering, in full |
| 7 | Incidents | Atlassian Incident Management Handbook | — |
| 8 | Recorded decisions | adr.github.io | — |
| 9 | Web application security | OWASP Top 10 | OWASP ASVS |
C.1 How to study without stalling the project
One reading per iteration, tied to the phase of the plan you’re in. When you finish, write one line in your HOW-WE-WORK.md about what you decided to adopt. Reading without applying fades within weeks; one applied line sticks.