Scrummaster Resources and References—

A Day in the Life of [TOP]

Agile Business Intelligence DataWarehousing and COTS [TOP]

Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing - Ken W. Collier [AMAZON]

Agile Hardware [TOP]

Agile Organizations [TOP]

Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love - Richard Sheridan [AMAZON]

Agile Outside of Software [TOP]

Anti-Patterns [TOP]

Burndowns [TOP]

Case Studies [TOP]

Culture [TOP]

Daily Scrum Ideas [TOP]

Definition of Done [TOP]

Distributed Teams [TOP]

Zapier – The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work (Free Download) - Wade Foster

Embedded Agile [TOP]

Estimation [TOP]

Facilitation [TOP]

Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making - Sam Kaner [AMAZON]
Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders - Jean Tabaka [AMAZON]

Finance [TOP]

Games to understand and teach Agile [TOP]

General [TOP]

Government and Agile [TOP]

Book- very heavy on the additional need to use DSDM
Agile Project Management for Government - Brian Wernham [AMAZON]

ITIL and Agile [TOP]

Impact of Agile [TOP]

Interesting Examples of Agile in Use [TOP]

Job Posts - Hiring - Interviews [TOP]

Hiring Geeks That Fit - Johanna Rothman

Kanban [TOP]

Real-World Kanban: Do Less, Accomplish More with Lean Thinking - [AMAZON]
Kanban from the Inside: Understand the Kanban Method - [AMAZON]
This mini-book offers an easy to follow 10 step guide to taking the initial plunge and start using Lean Principles to optimizing value and flow in your system. Each step consists of a section explaining “why” followed by examples of specific tools, practices and rules that have helped other teams better understand and optimize their system.
Priming Kanban - Jesper Boeg

Lean [TOP]

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck [AMAZON]
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash - Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck [AMAZON]
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point - Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck [AMAZON]
The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions - Mary Poppendieck [AMAZON]
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development - Donald G. Reinertsen [AMAZON]
Womack and Jones - the classic Introduction to Lean (as it pertains to manufacturing):
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated - James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones [AMAZON]
Critical Chain - Eliyahu M. Goldratt [AMAZON]

Learning [TOP]

Managers in Scrum [TOP]

The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century - Stephen Denning [AMAZON]

Multi-tasking and Interruptions [TOP]

The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done - Dave Crenshaw [AMAZON]

Non-Technical Descriptions of Agile Engineering Practices [TOP]

Organizational Change [TOP]

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change - William Bridges [AMAZON]
Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author - John P. Kotter [AMAZON]
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations - John P. Kotter [AMAZON]
A Sense of Urgency - John P. Kotter [AMAZON]
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard - Chip Heath, Dan Heath
This book summarizes what you're attempting to do.
Reinventing Organizations - Frederic Laloux [AMAZON]

Organizations Without Managers [TOP]

Outsourcing [TOP]

Production Support [TOP]

Psychological Safety [TOP]

Release Planning [TOP]

Resources [TOP]

Responsibility [TOP]

Retrospectives [TOP]

What Did You Say?: The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback - Charles N. Seashore, Edith Whitfield Seashore, Gerald M. Weinberg [AMAZON]
The Retrospective Handbook - Patrick Kua
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great - Esther Derby, Diana Larsen
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - Luis Gonçalves, Ben Linders

Root Cause Analysis [TOP]

Scaling and Large Teams [TOP]

Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum - Craig Larman, Bas Vodde [AMAZON]
Large-Scale Scrum: More with Less - Craig Larman, Bas Vodde [AMAZON]
Larman and Vodde’s second book
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum - Craig Larman, Bas Vodde

Scrum for Research [TOP]

Scrum in Healthcare [TOP]

ScrumMaster Role [TOP]

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process - Kenneth S. Rubin [AMAZON]
The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year - Mitch Lacey [AMAZON]
The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki [AMAZON]
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas - Mary Lynn Manns Ph.D, Linda Rising Ph.D. [AMAZON]

Security and Scrum [TOP]

Self Organization [TOP]

The Wisdom Of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization - Jon Katzenbach [AMAZON]

Sprint Backlog [TOP]

Sprint Goal [TOP]

Sprint Length Tradeoffs [TOP]

Sprint Planning [TOP]

Strategy Deployment [TOP]

Systems Thinking [TOP]

Task/Story Wall [TOP]

Team Rooms [TOP]

Team Working Agreements [TOP]

Teams [TOP]

Testing [TOP]

Tools [TOP]

Transformation and Transitions [TOP]

The Culture Game – Tools for the Agile Manager - Daniel Mezick [AMAZON]

Understanding People [TOP]

Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging - Susan Fowler [AMAZON]

Why not work 50-60 hrs a week [TOP]

Writers and Scrum [TOP]