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A Day in the Life [TOP]
Agile Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing/Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) [TOP]
AGILE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE/DATA WAREHOUSING/COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) BOOKS
Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing – Ken W. Collier [AMAZON]
Agile Hardware [TOP]
Agile Mainframe Development [TOP]
Agile Organizations [TOP]
GEOCENTRIC
AGILE ORGANIZATIONS BOOKS
Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love – Richard Sheridan [AMAZON]
Agile Outside of Software [TOP]
SALES
WIKISPEED
AGILE SCHOOLS
AGILE MARKETING
AGILE MARKETING BOOKS
Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative – Scott Brinker [AMAZON]
HOME AND FAMILY
AGILE OUTSIDE OF SOFTWARE BOOKS
Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative – Scott Brinker [AMAZON]
Agile for Embedded Software [TOP]
Anti-Patterns [TOP]
Burndowns [TOP]
Case Studies [TOP]
MULTI-COMPANY SURVEYS
Coaching [TOP]
POWERFUL QUESTIONS
Complexity Theory [TOP]
Daily Scrum [TOP]
Definition of Done [TOP]
Dependencies [TOP]
Distributed Teams [TOP]
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS BOOKS
From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams – Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby
Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams, and Managers – Lisette Sutherland, Kirsten Janene-Nelson [AMAZON]
Estimation and Forecasting [TOP]
PLANNING POKER
CHALLENGES
ESTIMATION
FORECASTING
Extreme Programming [TOP]
EXTREME PROGRAMMING BOOKS
Extreme Programming Installed – Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson [AMAZON]
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change – Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres [AMAZON]
Facilitation [TOP]
FACILITATION BOOKS
Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making – Sam Kaner [AMAZON]
Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders – Jean Tabaka [AMAZON]
Games for understanding and teaching Agile [TOP]
General [TOP]
Government and Agile [TOP]
GOVERNMENT AND AGILE BOOKS
Book- very heavy on the additional need to use DSDM
Agile Project Management for Government – Brian Wernham [AMAZON]
Impact of Agile [TOP]
JOB POSTS – HIRING – INTERVIEWS [TOP]
JOB POSTS – HIRING – INTERVIEWS BOOKS
Hiring Geeks That Fit – Johanna Rothman
Kanban [TOP]
CUMULATIVE FLOW DIAGRAMS
KANBAN CASE STUDY
KANBAN BOOKS
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
Knowledge Work [TOP]
Leadership [TOP]
Lean [TOP]
LEAN BOOKS
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]
Legacy Systems [TOP]
Maintenance and Production Support [TOP]
Metrics and Measurement [TOP]
Multitasking and Interruptions [TOP]
LEARNING GAMES
MULTITASKING AND INTERRUPTIONS BOOKS
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]
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE BOOKS
The Science of Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture – Paul Gibbons [AMAZON]
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change – William Bridges [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]
ZAPPOS
Outsourcing [TOP]
Release Planning [TOP]
Responsibility [TOP]
Retrospectives [TOP]
RETROSPECTIVES BOOKS
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]
LESS
FORMING TEAMS
SAFE
SCALING AND LARGE TEAMS BOOKS
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 [AMAZON]
Scrum for Research [TOP]
Scrum in Healthcare [TOP]
ScrumMaster Role [TOP]
SCRUMMASTER ROLE BOOKS
Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership – Geoff Watts [AMAZON]
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]
SELF-SELECTING TEAMS
SELF-ORGANIZATION BOOKS
The Wisdom Of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization – Jon Katzenbach [AMAZON]
Skills Matrix/Cross-Skilling [TOP]
Sprint Backlog [TOP]
Sprint Goal [TOP]
Sprint Length Tradeoffs [TOP]
Sprint Planning [TOP]
Strategy Deployment [TOP]
Systems Thinking [TOP]
SYSTEMS THINKING BOOKS
Thinking in Systems: A Primer – Donella Meadows [AMAZON]
The Systems Bible: The Beginner’s Guide to Systems Large and Small – John Gall [AMAZON]
Task/Story Wall [TOP]
Team Rooms [TOP]
Team Working Agreements [TOP]
Teams [TOP]
SIZE
STABLE
SPECIAL TEAMS
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
SUPERSTAR DEVELOPERS
TEAMS BOOKS
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable – Patrick M. Lencioni [AMAZON]
Testing [TOP]
Tools [TOP]
Understanding People [TOP]
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE BOOKS
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade – Robert Cialdini [AMAZON]
Influence: Science and Practice – Robert B. Cialdini [AMAZON]
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It – Chris Voss and Tahl Raz [AMAZON]
Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long – David Rock [AMAZON]