Resources
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Books and Online Resources by Category
Agility is about teamwork, transparency, and technical excellence. No matter what your experience with Agile practices and techniques, we’re here to guide you.
The ICAgile Accreditation Program focuses on advancing high-quality agile learning by ensuring courses align with learning objectives as defined by industry experts.
Great tool for review and practice real time. Some free, full power through subscription.
Agile Certified Practitioner | PMI-ACP
PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification recognizes the need for a specialist role in agile project management.
Founded by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber, Scrum.org provides Professional Scrum Assessments and Training through our global community.
Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. This Guide contains the definition of Scrum.
SAFe provides online, freely revealed, and comprehensive guidance for achieving the benefits of Lean-Agile development at enterprise scale.
Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
Explains how to set a vision properly
Managing Uncertainty using the Agile Mindset – SCG
Best explanation of the agile mindset I’ve come across
The Golden Circle: Why Does Apple Command Loyalty? – Simon Sinek
Explains the importance of inspiring others and setting a vision
Making Sense of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – Henrik Kniberg
Agile Product Ownership In A Nutshell – Henrik Kniberg
Great video describing Agile Product Ownership – In a Nutshell
The Cynefin Framework – Cognitive Edge
Explanation of a sense-making model
The Backwards Brain Bicycle – Smarter Every Day
Change can be even harder than you think!
The Scrum Framework – Lyssa Adkins
Change Management vs. Change Leadership – What’s the Difference? – Dr. John Kotter
Agile Programming for your Family – Bruce Feller
What is Leadership? – With David Marquet
Embedding the capacity for greatness in the people and practices supporting the organization and decoupling it from the personality of the leader.
Mike Cohn: What is agile and Scrum and Scrum described
Larry Apke: Understanding the Agile Manifesto.
This book offers in-depth commentary and explanations on the Agile methodology’s foundation, the Agile Manifesto
Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. Mindset the New Psychology of Success
This book gives us a blueprint on how we can learn to fulfill our potential
Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies: Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams
This book is a handy resource to help launch new teams on the right foot
Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins
Scrum Master, Project Lead or other, this book will help ground you in the servant leadership model and equip you with tools to pull teams forward towards their own success
The Scrum Guide from scrum.org The Scrum Guide
Scrum Alliance, What is Scrum
Succeeding with Agile, Mike Cohn
Scrum, the Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, By Jeff Sutherland
Choose Your Wow, Disciplined Agile by Mark Lines, Scott Ambler
Agile Software Development a Cooperative Game, Second Edition, By Alistair Cockburn.
If you’re new to agile development, this book will help you succeed out the gate. If you’ve used agile methods before, Cockburn’s techniques will make you even more effective.
Mike Cohn: User Stories Applied
This clear and simple book covers the aspects of writing, estimating, prioritizing and committing to product requirements. Essential reading for Product Owners.
Mike Cohn: Agile Estimating and Planning
What are story points again? Why do we use them and not estimated hours? This book will refresh you on these topics and help you become good at estimation and release planning.
Lyssa Adkins and Michael K. Spayd: The Manager’s Role in Agile
Jim Highsmith: Agile Project Management – Creating Innovative Products
Good overview of Agile approaches to project management
Leading Change by Dr. John Kotter
Christopher Avery: The Responsibility Process
Awareness of The Responsibility Process provides a framework for learning by individuals, teams, and organizations. It is the first how-to model for taking, teaching, and inspiring personal responsibility – the #1 principle of success in any endeavor
L. David Marquet. Turn the Ship Around!
A true story of turning followers into leaders. The best how to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.
Willaim Isaacs. Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together.
A approach to communication in business and life
Patterson; Grenny, McMillain, Switzler. Crucial Conversations. Tools for talking when stakes are high
Kim Scott. Radical Candor. Be a kick ass boss without losing your humanity.
What it takes to adopt agile by Mario E. Moreira
Team Topologies Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Athew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
https://ensembleconsultinggroup.com/the-value-management-office/
John Doerr: Measure What Matters. How Google, Bono, and the Gate Foundation Rock the World of OKRs
Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble and Gene Kim: Accelerate. Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations.
Accelerate allows technology managers at every level to see, evaluate, and use successful applications to elevate their own organizations.
The client and coach relationship: Different Coaching models by Michael Mahlberg
Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins
Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching
David Kantor: Reading the Room. Group Dynamics for coaches and leaders
Patricia Bossons, Patricia Riddell, Danis Sartain: The Neuroscience of Leadership Coaching. Why the tools and techniques of leadership coaching work.
Powerful Questions Cards from the Coaching Agile Teams class
Deb Preuss: Powerful Questions Cards
More powerful questions!
Tony Stoltzfus: Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
This is the ‘full of easy and useful stuff book’ that David and Allison love.
Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka
A great book for agile coaches about being a good facilitator. Check out the section with starter agendas for sprint planning and other agile meetings.
Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
To help you create retrospectives that have people get up from the conference room table and come up with real insights. Our copy of this one has stickies all over it and coffee stains and worn out pages. That’s how much we use it.