Books To Read

Title	Author	Subject	Audience	Comments	Readability	Recommended
"Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders"	David Marquet	Transformation; Leadership	Management	Medium	Yes
"Accelerate - Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World"	John Kotter	Transformation; Change	Management	Medium	Yes
"The Rollout: A Novel about Leadership and Building a Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFe"	Alex Yakyma	Transformation	Management	High	Yes
"Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban"	Andrew Stellman; Jennifer Greene	BasicAgile	ScrumMaster	High
"Rolling Rocks Downhill: The Agile Business Novel"	Clarks Ching	BasicAgile	Management	High	Yes
"Scrum Guide"	Ken Schwaber; Jeff Sutherland	BasicAgile	ScrumMaster	Medium	Yes
"This is Lean - Resolving the Efficiency Paradox"	Niklas Modig	BasicLean	Management	High	Yes
"Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential"	Bjarte Bogsnes	Finance	Management	Medium	Yes
"Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age"	Roman Pichler	Planning	ProductOwner	Medium
"Management 3.0"	Jurgen Appelo	Management	Management	Medium	Yes
"Conflict Resolution"	Daniel Dana	TeamPerformance	ScrumMaster	Medium
"Superforecasting - The Art and Science of Prediction"	Philip E. Tetlock; Dan Gardner	Planning	ProductOwner; Management	Easy
"Designing Organizations - Strategy, Structure, and Process at the Business Unit and Enterprise Levels"	Jay Galbraith	Transformation; Organization	Management	Medium
"Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing"	Gojko Adzic	Quality; Testing	Team	Medium	Yes
"Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects"	Johanna Rothman	Portfolio	ProductOwner; Management	Easy	Yes
"Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World"	Stanley McChrystal	Organization; Culture	Management	Medium	Yes
"Lean Product and Process Development"	Allen Ward	Lean; Planning	ProductOwner; Management	Excellent book - recommended - on the application of lean ideas to product development process	Medium	Yes
"Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide"	IIBA	Planning	ProductOwner	Hard
"Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives"	Luis Conclaves; Ben Linders	Retrospectives	ScrumMaster	Medium
"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team"	Patrick Lencioni	Team; Culture	ScrumMaster; Management	Easy	Yes
"Complexity - A Very Short Introduction"	John Holland	Complexity	ScrumMaster; Management	One of the basis of Scrum is complex systems. This book gives a pretty good introduction to the understanding of complex systems in general. Not directly useful perhaps, but helps provide a framework for thinking.	Hard
“The Lean Machine- How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development”	Dantar P. Oosterwal	Transformation; Change	Management	Brilliant book, just brilliant, if you are trying to understand how to implement “lean” type thinking approach to the problem of new product development.	Medium	Yes
"Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability"	Daniel S. Vacant	Planning; Metrics	ScrumMaster; Management	There are two uses of this book 1) to understand a small set of metrics which, if tracked correctly, will help you improve your process and 2) to understand how to interpret scatterplots, cumulative flow diagrams and so on, what to look for and how to address. Book is a little “anti-Scrum” (or rather anti point based estimating) but still a valuable addition to understanding your delivery system.	Medium
"Scaling Lean and Agile Development: Thinking and Organization Tools"	Craig Larmon; Bas Vodde	Transformation	Management	This books looks at the process of scaling more from the viewpoint of the original Scrum thinking, that of complexity science. It doesn't specify a lot of practices, by rather suggest experiments with sections labelled “try”.	Hard
"User Story Mapping"	Jeff Patton	Planning	ProductOwner	Excellent book on the process of working requirements. Tool offers not only a way to define the stories in the first place, but also how to put together a roadmap, use the story map as a way of showing progress and maintaining context.	Easy	Yes
“Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery"	Scott Ambler; Mark Lines	Transformation	Management	Another approach to adaptation. Like the focus on risk, although positioning as “something Scrum doesn't worry about” I think is incorrect - we did after all.	Medium
"Secrets of Consulting"	Gerry Weinberg	Consulting	Consultant	Useful for a new consulting business like me.	Medium
“Predicting the Unpredictable”	Johanna Rothman	Planning	ProdictOwner	Great summary of estimation and planning approaches	Medium	Yes
“Scrum for the Rest of Us”	Brian Rabon: Scrum 101	BasicAgile	ScrumMaster	Medium