The Goal

Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

A business fiction book that describes "The Theory of Constraints" a process initially applied in manufacturing that deals with optimizing production line systems.

I found the sections on identifying a bottle neck in a system, focusing on optimizing the system around this point and re-evaluating system performance afterwards very applicable to software engineering.

Everything from CICD pipelines, the flow of work through your team to or performance optimizing a service oriented architecture.

Very much a fore father to books like Phoenix Project mentioned by others here.