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Bookshelf

At Pretty Agile we are all avid readers of Agile, Lean and DevOps books.

Each of us has found learning from books to instrumental in evolving our thinking, inspiring our experiments and "sharpening the saw".

Our bookshelf was started by the Em's first Agile Release Train. Reading was at the foundation of that trains continuous learning culture. It all started with "Leffingwell Book Club" and over time the list grew as the team read more and added their recommendations to the book club wall. When Em started Pretty Agile in 2014 she took the book club wall digital.

Welcome to the Pretty Agile Bookshelf - we hope you enjoy your visit.

Agile Fundamentals

Agile Estimating and Planning 1st Edition Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition (The XP Series) 2nd Edition Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business Blue Book ed. Edition Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products 2nd Edition Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams 1st Edition User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development 1st Edition Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum 1st Edition

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) 1st Edition Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life Paperback – February 2, 2011

Scaling Agile

Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises 1st Edition Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Agile Software Development Series) 1st Edition Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum 1st Edition Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point 1st Edition Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban 1st Edition The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck: Practical Tips and Tricks for Launching and Operating SAFe Agile Release Trains Kindle Edition Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture Kindle Edition

Lean Thinking

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer 1st Edition Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results 1st Edition This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox by Modig, Niklas, Ahlstrom, Par (2012) Paperback The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition Paperback – June 1, 2012 Lean Thinking

Thinking outside the box

Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects Freedom from Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service 1st Edition The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Hardcover – September 13, 2011 Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers 1st Edition

The Books Behind the Books

Out of the Crisis Reprint Edition The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development Hardcover – January 1, 2009 An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) Anniversary Edition

Building Teams

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization Paperback – Illustrated, June 7, 2011 Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction Paperback – November 11, 1997 Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility Paperback – April 9, 2001 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition Hardcover – Organizer, April 11, 2002 Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great 2nd  Edition Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) 1st Edition Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders 1st Edition

Great Teams Deserve Great Leaders

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't Hardcover – October 16, 2001 The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development 1st Edition Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Hardcover – September 11, 2012 Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) 1st Edition Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances 1st Edition Get It On!: What It Means To Lead The Way Kindle Edition

Leading Change

Roll over image to zoom in      4 VIDEOS    Play Audible sample Follow the authors Chip Heath Chip HeathChip Heath Follow Dan Heath Dan HeathDan Heath Follow Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Hardcover – Februa Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author Hardcover – November 6, 2012 The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations Hardcover – November 6, 2012 Who Moved My Cheese? Hardcover – January 1, 2010 Our Iceberg is Melting

Agile Data Warehousing

Click image to open expanded view Follow the author Ken Collier Ken CollierKen Collier Follow Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (Agile Software Development Series) 1st Edit Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema 42745th Edition Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design 1st Edition

Miscellaneous

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us The Ultimate Question 2.0 (Revised and Expanded Edition): How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead