References

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