We're currently a team of 3 engineers in our startup (myself being an engineer doing the non-engineering stuff). We have a very bright non-technical person joining to do non-technical stuff (legal, strategy, product, ...). His background is in economics and law.
He asked for recommended books to read before he starts to be able to follow more quickly.
We definitely don't want to convert him into a technical person, but I imagine communication will be easier if he has a basic knowledge of software engineering. I'm thinking understanding terms like frontend, backend, server, deploy, pull request, network requests, caching,...
Is there a book that you recommend to non-technical people who want to have a basic grasp of (startup) software engineering?
Any other tips?
Thanks in advance!
I've gifted The Mythical Man Month (Brooks) and Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Cagan) to colleagues and have received great feedback.
Personally, I had never used the term attribution model until I worked at an ecommerce company and didn't have a good reason to understand the details of churn until working with a SAAS business. Any reasonably smart person can pick up these domain specific understandings as they go.