With Zen-like style, Lyssa offers well organized and pragmatic “how-to” content for developing healthy Agile Teams. She clearly explains the objectives, approaches and resources that help the Agile Coach fulfill her role and guide the te…

The Retrospective Goddesses provide a well organized soup to nuts plan for conducting iteration, release and project retrospectives. The book is chalk full of activities for co-located teams, complete with tips. My only complaint is ther…

Like her style. Jean weaves the Agile Philosophy, Coaching Techniques, Corporate Realities, Scrum Processes and Team Dynamics into a coherent whole using anecdotes and agenda templates. The result is a very readable and pragmatic present…

Enjoyable and challenging, Slap explains his 20 year process of moving enterprises from their Bitter Place to their Better Place by value driven leadership. The premise, which Slap intuited and was proved by neuroscience, is that the onl…

Pragmatic and meaty, this tome provides the QA professional with multiple and nuanced perspectives on what it means to be a Tester. Honestly, it’s too much to absorb all at once. This is a book you have to read in stages. From Acceptance…

I love Martin. Both in person and in this slim volume, he gets to the point quickly and with great clarity. Isn’t that the very purpose of Modeling? In The Art of Business Process Modeling, Martin outlines his PROMAP Framework for tackli…

Decision Making – what delicious fun and dreadful conundrums! Salesmen and teachers have always known – that presentation matters, but Iyengar reveals just how much and why! In this exceedingly eclectic and very readable book, Iyengar di…

A book that changed me forever! I read The Fifth Discipline long ago and have used it consistently in my life ever since. Peter Senege articulates how the complexity in organizational processes is a make or break situation that demands d…

Reminds me of the old saying, “Numbers don’t tell stories, people do.” Set up like a workbook to help people develop concise yet vivid stories that communicate concepts more effectively than simple statements or numbers. The best thing a…

Fascinating scholarly work chronicling the invasions and occupations of Sicily. It’s really a story of the human pain and unintended consequences of top-down policies. A cautionary tale for business who fail to bring all stakeholders to …

Authentic story about the author’s life’s journey from college graduate out to change the world to experienced professional changing the world. I read the book after seeing the author interviewed on Charlie Rose. What is special about th…

A Lean Institute text, this book tells the day to day story of understanding the problem from both the manager’s and employee’s perspective. The unique format works and is a quick read. “A3” is about understanding the problem from direct…

Excellent mix of theory and practicality, with an emphasis, aptly enough, on usability. Whatever your level of experience with Agile methods, Cohn’s presentation makes the process accessible.

Defining story points, explaining a disciplined approach to story prioritization, laying out communication plans, defining buffers and much more are included with the nitty gritty details of how to plan and estimate with agility. I parti…

It’s a story of unintended consequences. Farmed Fish is a big idea response to pressures on the wild fish stock in the commercial fisheries. It holds promise, but has primarily worsened the circumstances of the wild stock while degrading…

I have been using this weighty book as a resource for about a year, now. After having read most of it in this manner, I’ve gone back and started reading it again from page 1. It’s that type of book. But perhaps more valuable than the man…

Yes. Simply yes. Pink presents psychological support from the 1930s through today for the things that any good salesman, athletic coach or teacher already knew. It has always flummoxed me that organizations often fail to recognize that t…

Gladstone used graphic non-fiction to deftly communicate the historical, psychological and sociological truths of the media’s influence in society. From Caesar’s Acta Diurna, the first daily news which pressured the Roman Senators to be …

All the plastics ever manufactured, still exists. Plastics absorb & concentrates toxins. Ultimately billions of tons of plastic finds its way into our ocean and is consumed by marine life. As horrifying as this is, it gets worse. Plastic…

Basing his approach in the synergy between ethics and psychology, Avery presents tactical suggestions for both the individual and the team with the goal of creating the level of commitment and trust that characterize highly productive te…

Excellent! It’s always so nice when you read something by an expert that describes your own experiences. It’s even better when the expert gives step by step instructions on how to deal with those challenges. As many of us know, the…

Very readable novelesque description of how to rapidly transform a traditional team to a Scrum team. Beginning with a serendipitous meeting in an airport bar between an Agile Coach and a CTO whose client just made it painfully clear that…

Goldsmith writes well about his work with successful leaders with potentially fatal flaws. Very engaging story and very accurate descriptions of problem behaviors. As an individual, I have a takeaway for a behavior I have to be aware of …

Sociocratic governance evolved in the Netherlands post WWII in business and educational environments. Working from the concept of consensus, but focusing on the issues of management, the pioneers used scientific laws and real world metap…

They are not lying under every rock nor do they occupy every office, but unfortunately, more and more “snakes” are filling leadership positions in Corporate America. Depending on which study you read, between 4 and 30% of our managers an…

A conversational first person narrative about how a young man held onto his belief that work should be fun, and had the opportunity to realize it. Hsieh includes multiple real emails sent at critical junctures to demonstrate his authenti…

What I find so intriguing about physics is the reflection of our social systems in those natural laws. For example, Newtonian physics indicates a straight line between points A and B at a predictable rate of speed as an obvious and ratio…

Very useful! Author provides all the info you need in the description of each game in a very readable format, and also gives credit to the source. I started using the material immediately! if you like the Innovation Games material, you’l…

Just my cup of tea! Only a small percentage of leaders evolve beyond the Heroic models of Expert or Achiever, levels of human development typically achieved in our twenties. But those few managers and leaders who do become Catalysts, Co-…

I totally agree with Denning’s core message that effective leaders have “narrative intelligence,” which taps into our innate and emotional attachment to stories. My favorite take-away is Denning’s articulation of a way to leverage confir…

I liked it. The author ties learning theory and cognitive psychology to training behaviors, something we should all do all the time. However, I didn’t find the book as easy to use as the author intended. That said, there is one take away…

Well, I may be biased. I did write the book, after all. Let me tell you about how A to XP: The Agile ABC Book came about.Working in 3 different companies, I asked multiple team members what books on the Agile approach had they read. A…