I’ve been a "senior software development product manager" and "user experience principal" at Oracle. Due to the acquisition of Sun, I am also the "last user experience architect of Sun Microsystems ever". Here are a few resources that I find extremeley relevant and inspiring in order to position a design team in an organization and to develop a strategy for the business.
Ten Bellies and No Brain /2015
Ivan Sutherland on Leadership /2006
The Maryland Way by Ben Shneiderman /1993
All my engagements I will construe to thee /2014
Resources on the idea of innovation /2016
Usability im Unternehmen, Kapitel 4 aus Usability Praktisch Umsetzen, Hanser 2003
Dr. Gerhard Wohland: Kulturbeobachtung – ein Element dynamikrobuster Höchstleistung /2007
Professional Usability in Open Source Projects /2004
AskTog: Designers as Architects /1998
Mind the Gap! Software Engineers and Interaction Architects /2003
Projektmanagement: Wie etabliert man ein Projekt? /2014