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Agile & Scrum
- agilemanifesto.org
- The Scrum Guide
- SCRUM Development Process, Ken Schwaber, Business Object Design and Implementation, 1997 (originally presented at OOPSLA 1995, Austin, TX)
- The New New Product Development Game, Hirotaka Takeuchi & Ikujiro Nonaka, Harvard Business Review, January-February 1986
- Agile Software Development with Scrum, Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle
- Essential Scrum, Ken Rubin
- Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum, Mike Cohn
- The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility, Michele Sliger & Stacia Broderick
- Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory
- More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory
- Test Driven Development: By Example, Kent Beck
- Scrum and XP from the Trenches, Henrik Kniberg
- Agile & DevOps are failing in Fortune 500 companies
- What’s the Story with Agile Data?, Troy Magennis (Agile 2018 Keynote, Troy’s Website)
- Software Estimation Without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World, George Dinwiddie
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland
- Managing the Development of Large Software Systems, Winston Royce, 1970 (early paper on traditional project management aka waterfall)
Scrum Masters
- The Scrum Master Checklist, Michael James
- Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins
- Agile Coaching, Rachel Davies & Liz Sedley
- The Art & Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams, Marsha Acker
- The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Coaches, and Trainers, Roger Schwarz
- Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Sam Kaner
- The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation, Edited by Sandy Schuman
- Human Systems Dynamics, Glenda Eoyang
- Coping with Chaos,Glenda Eoyang
- Adaptive Action,Glenda Eoyang & Royce Holladay
- Organization Development: A Practitioner’s Guide for OD and HR, Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge & Linda Holbeche
- 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results, Esther Derby
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip & Dan Heath
- The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness (Based on the work of Jim & Michele McCarthy), Richard Kasperowski
- Scrum Basics: What is the Scrum daily meeting?, Jeff Sutherland
- Lean Coffee, Jim Benson & Jeremy Lightsmith
Product Owners
- Start with Why, Simon Sinek
- Running Lean, Ash Maurya
- Value Proposition Design, Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda, & Alan Smith
- Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation, David Bland & Alex Osterwalder
- Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, Luke Hohmann
- Product Mastery: From Good To Great Product Ownership, Geoff Watts
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore
- Thinking, Fast & Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- How We Believe, Michael Shermer
- Wikipedia List of Cognitive Biases
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, Mike Cohn
- The Humanizing Work Guide to Splitting User Stories, Richard Lawrence & Peter Green
- User Story Mapping, Jeff Patton
- The Impatient Product Owner, Seinfeld
- Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams, Jeff Gothelf & Jeff Seiden
- Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, David J. Anderson
Retrospectives
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Esther Derby & Diana Larsen
- Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews, Norman Kerth
- The Retrospective Prime Directive, Norman L. Kerth
- Retrospectives for Organizational Change: An Agile Approach, Jutta Eckstein
- Getting Value Out of Retrospectives: A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises, Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
- The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams, Patrick Kua
- Retrospectives: A Scrum Master’s Guide, Daria Bagina
- Funretrospectives: Activities and Ideas for making agile retrospectives more engaging, Paulo Caroli & Tainã Coimbra
- Retrospectives for Everyone: Powerful Metaphors for Effective Retrospectives, Madhavi Ledalla
- Improving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More Efficient, Marc Loeffler
- Retrospectives Antipatterns, Aino Vonge Corry
- Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives, Tom Roden & Ben Williams
- recesskit.com, Adam Wesibart
- tastycupcakes.org
- retromat.org
- retrium.com
- funretrospectives.com
- Liberating Structures
Leadership & Teams
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Dan Pink
- Turn The Ship Around, L. David Marquet
- Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, Jurgen Appelo
- The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, Teresa Amabile & Steven Kramer
- Goodheart’s Law
- Velocity is Killing Agility, Jim Highsmith
- Difference Between Accuracy & Precision
- Distinguishing Between Feature & Component Teams, Kenneth Rubin
- Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product, Roman Pichler.
- Dark Scrum, Ron Jeffries
- Joy, Inc, Richard Sheridan
- Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear, Richard Sheridan
- Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams & Projects, Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The 4 Stages of Psychology Safety: Defining the Path of Inclusion & Innovation, Timothy R. Clark
- Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption, Jutta Eckstein & John Buck
- Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, Donald G. Reinertsen
- Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schwarz
- How to Distinguish the Important Differences Between Teams and Work Groups, Marie J. Kane
- Workgroups vs. Teams, Holger Paffrath
