Chapter 7. Real Books for Further Investigation

The books listed in this chapter have had a deep and profound impact on my growth over the years as a coach, trainer, business owner, etc. I have drawn heavily upon these and others. I have done my best to provide a comprehensive list. If you get finished with these, there are hundreds of other books to continue on in your learning journey. Visit InformIt.com for Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall books and videos.

Adkins, Lyssa. 2010. Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Anderson, David J. 2010. Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. Seattle, WA: Blue Hole Press.

Appelo, Jurgen. 2011. Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Axelrod, Alan. 1999. Patton on Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Brooks, Frederick P. 1995. The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley.

Buckingham, Marcus and Coffman, Curt. 1999. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Cohn, Mike. 2004. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Cohn, Mike. 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Coplien, James O. 2005. Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Denning, Stephen. 2010. The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Derby, Esther and Larsen, Diana. 2006. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. Frisco, TX: Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Foer, Joshua. 2011. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. London, UK: Penguin Books, Ltd.

Goleman, Daniel. 2006. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. New York, NY: Random House.

Greenleaf, Robert K. 2002. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.

Highsmith, Jim. 2010. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Jeffries, Ron, Anderson, Ann, and Hendrickson, Chet. 2000. Extreme Programming Installed. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Joiner, Bill and Josephs, Stephen. 2007. Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Kerth, Norman. 2001. Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews. New York, NY: Dorset House.

Kleon, Austin. 2012. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. New York, NY: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.

Krebs, Jochen. 2009. Agile Portfolio Management. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press.

Kohn, Alfie. 1999. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Kurzweil, Ray. 2012. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. New York, NY: Penguin Books Ltd.

Larman, Craig. 2009. Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Lasater, Judith Hanson and Lasater, Ike K. 2009. What We Say Matters: Practicing Non-Violent Communication. Berkeley, CA: Rodmell Press.

Leffingwell, Dean. 2011. Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Martinez, Sylvia Libow and Stager, Gary S. 2013. Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. Torrance, CA: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press.

McCarthy, Jim. 2002. Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

McConnell, Steven C. 2004. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press.

Meadows, Donella H. 2008. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Mezick, Daniel. 2012. The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager. Hartford, CT: Free Standing Press.

Owen, Harrison. 2008. Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Perkins, Dennis N. T. 2000. Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition. New York, NY: AMACOM.

Pichler, Roman. 2010. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Pink, Daniel. 2011. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. New York, NY: Penguin Group.

Reinertsen, Donald G. 2009. The Principles of Product Development FLOW: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Redondo Beach, CA: Celeritas Publishing.

Ries, Eric. 2011. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York, NY: Crown Business.

Robinson, Sir Ken. 2001. Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative. West Sussex, UK: Capstone Publishing Ltd.

Rock, David and Page, Linda J. 2009. Coaching with the Brain in Mind: Foundations for Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Rosenberg, Marshall. 2003. Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life. Encinitas, CA: PuddleDancer Press.

Schwaber, Ken and Beedle, Mike. 2002. Agile Software Development with Scrum. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Scott, Susan. 2011. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time. New York, NY: The Berkley Publishing Group.

Seddon, John. 2005. Freedom from Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service. New York, NY: Productivity Press.

Shalloway, Alan, Beaver, Guy, and Trott, James R. 2010. Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Silsbee, Doug. 2008. Presence-Based Coaching: Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body, and Heart. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Sinek, Simon. 2009. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. New York, NY: Penguin Group.

Sutherland, Jeff. 2014. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. New York, NY: Crown Business.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. 2012. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. New York, NY: Random House Publishing Group.

Weinberg, Gerald. 1998. The Psychology of Computer Programming. New York, NY: Dorset House.