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7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results

Esther Derby

A Conscientious Manager’s Dilemma

David J Anderson

Against the Rules - Six Levels Down

Michael Lewis

Agile Alliance

Agile Games

Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell

Henrik Kniberg

Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition: A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement

Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, David Horowitz

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

All In Startup: Launching a New Idea When Everything is on the Line

Diana Kander

Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change

Frank Senso

Authentic Empowerment Life & Career Coaching

Arissan Nicole

Be Like Water

Kanban University

Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an Agile Mindset

Kent McDonald

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition

Lyssa Adkins

Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders

Jean Tabaka

Creativity Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Joseph Grenny and Kerry Patterson

Cycle time vs. Lead time - What is the difference?

Kanban University

Discovering Kanban: The Evolutionary Path to Enterprise Agility

David J Anderson

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

Melissa Perri

Essential Kanban Condensed

David J Anderson and Andy Carmichael

Essential Upstream Kanban

Patrick Steyaert

Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond

Robert Galen

Extreme Programming Practices (XP)

Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

Sam Kaner

Feedback Loops: Everything You Need to Know

Kanban University

First Time Facilitator

Leanne Hughes

Fit for Purpose: How Modern Businesses Find, Satisfy, & Keep Customers

David J Anderson and Alexi Zheglov

Five Things You Need to Know About Lead Time

Kanban University

Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce: Build Rapport, Camaraderie, and Optimal Performance No Matter the Time Zone

Andy Molinsky, Melissa Hahn

From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver

Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

David Gray and Sunni Brown

Go Big or Go Home: 5 Ways to Create a Customer Experience That Will Close the Deal

Diana Kander, Tucker Trotter

How Basketball Can Save the World

David Hollander

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

Kent J. McDonald

How to Identify Leaders

Sam Walker

How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together

Roman Pichler

How to Read Lead Time Distribution

Kanban University

How we accidentally invented Job Stories

Paul Adams

INVEST Criteria

Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play

Luke Hohmann

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Marty Cagen

Kanban Maturity Model: A Map to Organizational Agility, Resilience, and Reinvention

David J Anderson and Teodora Bozhava

Kanban Practices

David J Anderson

Kanban Principles

David J Anderson

Kanban University

Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both (Enterprise Software Development)

Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin

Kanban from the Inside: Understand the Kanban Method, connect it to what you already know, introduce it with impact

Mike Burrows

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

David J. Anderson

Lead Without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams

Diana Larsen and Tricia Broderick

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Simon Sinek

Lenny's Podcast - interviews world-class product leaders

Lenny Rachitsky

Mandela's Way: Lessons for an Uncertain Age

Richard Stengel

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Minimum Viable Replacement

Matt Paige

Nordstrom Innovation Lab

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam Grant

Our Approach to Innovation is Dead Wrong

Diana Kander

PMI Agile Practice Guide

PMI & Agile Alliance

Product Operations: How successful companies build better products at scale

Melissa Perri, Denise Tilles

RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers

Sean McBride

Remotely Productive: Leading better online meetings and workshops

Alex Pukinskis

Rethink

Adam Grant

Risk: A User's Guide

General Stanley McChrystal

Ron Howard Iconoclast - Ron Howard and Steve Nash

Ron Howard

Scrum Alliance

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Jeff Sutherland

Simplex Complex Systems (Self Organization)

Tom Wessels

Small - Scalable - Stories in the INVEST Model

Bill Wake

Software Profit Streams

Luke Hohmann and Jason Tanner

Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility

Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick

Start with Why (TED Talk)

Simon Sinek

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age

Roman Pichler

Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined

Scott Sonenshein

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal

Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility

Christopher Avery

Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation

David Bland and Alexander Osterwalder

The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint: Design Fast. Deliver Strong. Without Stress

Leanne Hughes

The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done

Stephen Denning

The Art & Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams

Marsha Acker

The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership

Sam Walker

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

Daniel Coyle

The Culture Playbook: 60 Highly Effective Actions to Help Your Group Succeed

Daniel Coyle

The Four Stages of Psychological Safety

Timothy R. Clark

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

Stephen Denning

The Official Guide to the Kanban Method

Kanban University

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

The Redeem Team

The Scrum Guide

The Six Most Underrated Leaders in Sports

Sam Walker

The Tuckman Model

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant

Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Marty Cagen

Twenty Ways to Split Stories

Bill Wake

Two Beats Ahead: What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation

Panos A. Panay and R. Michael Hendrix

Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure

Maggie Jackson

Upstream Kanban: Tools for Demand Managers (Better with Kanban)

David J Anderson and Anna Radzikowska

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Mike Cohn

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