These are the books I have either completed reading or in the progress of reading. Click on the title to be directed to an amazon affiliate link.
Fundamentals
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The Toyota Way |
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry. |
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time |
By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as “Scrum”, Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1,200 percent. |
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action |
In 2009 Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work and, in turn, inspire their colleagues and customers. |
The Scrum Fieldbook |
Based on years of work in the field with scores of companies, including Bosch, 3M, Schlumberger, and Rio Tinto, The Scrum Fieldbook delivers a hands-on, practical approach to rapidly delivering value for companies and organizations. |
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Scaling
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Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS |
Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?” a different and deeper question is, “How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?” |
Get SAFe Now |
SAFe is a response to organizations who need to scale Agile Teams. While SAFe’s “Big Picture” is thorough and complete, it is too dense for most first-time readers. “Get SAFe Now” makes SAFe approachable to all and quickly narrates the recommended start-up approach to implementing SAFe in a learning-friendly way using visuals and real-world examples. This book also helps as a primer before various SAFe training. |
Agile Retrospectives |
Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. |
Agile Development
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Released through Build, Test and Deployment Automation |
Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.
This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable
rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. |
https://amzn.to/3f57Gw0 |
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Metrics
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Accelerate |
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we’ve been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn’t matter―that it can’t provide a competitive advantage to our companies. |
https://amzn.to/2Uphqcj |
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Coaching
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Co-Active Coaching |
When Co-Active Coaching was first released in 1998, this pioneering work set the stage for what has become a cultural and business phenomenon and helped launch the profession of coaching. |
https://amzn.to/2YhJZcL |
The Prosperous Coach
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Show your clients what they cannot see. Say to your clients what no one else would dare to say. |
https://amzn.to/2ASINVe |
The Art of Coaching Teams
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The Art of Coaching Teams is the manual you never received when you signed on to lead a team. Being a great teacher is one thing, but leading a team, or team development, is an entirely different dynamic. |
https://amzn.to/2UpwFSK |
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