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Sanjiv Augustine,
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Addison-Wesley, 2005
A nice summary of agile leadership practices.
Rob
Austin,
Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations,
Dorset House, 1996
You get what you measure, but you can't measure everything, so what should you
do? One of the best books on performance measurement we've seen.
Rob Austin & Lee Devin,
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philosophy, software can come together on time, every time.
David Astels,
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if you are implementing test-driven development.
Kent
Beck,
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Second Edition (with Cynthia Andres), 2004
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Kent
Beck,
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for the executive suite. Frederick Brooks,
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Clayton M. Christensen,
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Lisa
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Kim B. Clark and
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is information flow, from the market to the technical team, and among all
members of the technical team.
Alistair Cockburn,
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Mike Cohn,
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Mike Cohn,
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this!
James C. Collins,
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organizations: a great book.
James C. Collins,
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HarperCollins, 2009
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Big Company Disease.
Larry Constantine, and Lucy Lockwood;
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Addison-Wesley, 1999
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usage-centered design.
Mark Denne & Jane Cleland-Huang,
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from staged deployment based on economic analysis. Provides solid
financial justification for agile development.
Jeffrey H. Dyer,
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establishing a contracting philosophy.
Eric Evans,
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shows how to do it.
Michael Feathers,
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If you are working with Legacy
Code, GET THIS BOOK!
Jamie
Flinchbaugh and Andy Carlino,
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David H. Freedman,
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The 30 Management Principles of the U. S. Marines,
Harper Business, 2000
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Malcolm
Gladwell,
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This is a fascinating book
about how culture and chance combine with hard work to create amazing success.
Eliyahu Goldratt
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Jeff
Cox,
The Goal,
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business novel on the Theory of Constraints applied to manufacturing, you've
missed a classic.
Jeremy
Hope, Robin Fraser,
Beyond Budgeting, Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Agile ideas from the executive suite
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Michael N. Kennedy,
Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Oakela Press, 2003
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development, this is the book to read.
Michael N. Kennedy,
Kent Harmon, Ed Minnock,
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Joshua Kerievsky,
Refactoring
to Patterns, Addison-Wesley, 2004
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refactoring.
George
Koenigsaecker,
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lead several successful lean transformations.
Corey Ladas,
Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development,
Modus Cooperandi Press, 2009
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Gerard
Meszaros,
xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, Addison-Wesley, 2007
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insiders guide.
Bob Martin,
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should read this book.
Matthew May,
The
Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation, Free
Press, 2006
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design at Toyota.
Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham,
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for Developing Software, Addison-Wesley, 2005
Anyone doing automated
acceptance testing, including retrofitting legacy code with acceptance tests,
should READ THIS.
Michael
Nygard,
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Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007
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stress in a production environment, this book is required reading.
Taiichi Ohno,
Toyota Production System,
English,
Productivity, Inc.
1988, published in Japanese in 1978
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Jeffery
Pfeffer and Robert Sutton,
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from
Evidence-Based Management, Harvard Business School Press, 2006
A wonderful book about how some of the most
unassailable management wisdom is clearly wrong - based on the evidence.
Jeffery
Pfeffer,
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Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Any book by Jeffery Pfeffer is always full of a lot of wisdom.
James
Parker,
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Profits, Pearson Education, 2008
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Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck,
Lean
Software Development,
Addison Wesley, 2003
If you have a lean initiative in your company and you do software development,
you should read this book.
Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck,
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Software Development, Addison Wesley, 2006
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Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck,
Leading Lean
Software Development, Addison Wesley, 2009
For Leaders of Software-Intensive
System Development.
Donald G. Reinertsen,
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Factory, The Free Press, New York, 1997
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development.
Donald G. Reinertsen,
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point. It's the economic consequences of the choices we make that matters.
Mike
Rother,
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Preston G. Smith and
Donald G. Reinertsen,
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Half the Time, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1998. originally
published in 1991
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development.
Harvey M. Sapolsky,
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Harvard University Press, 1972
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was invented for this project, it had little to do with the program's
success.
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applying Lean principles to large projects.
Ken Schwaber, and Mike Beedle,
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Scrum.
Ken Schwaber,
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Peter Scholtes, Brian Joiner, Barbara Streibel
The
Team Handbook, Joiner/Oriel, Third edition, 2003
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Peter Scholtes,
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Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe,
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Jossey-Bass, 2001
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very dangerous places safe: aircraft carriers, chemical plants, emergency
scenes.
James P.
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The Machine That Changed the
World; the Story of Lean Production, Rawson and Associates; 1990
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James P.
Womack, and
Daniel T.
Jones,
Lean Thinking, Simon & Schuster, 1996;
Second Edition, Free Press, 2003
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edition remains a classic.
Andreas Zeller,
Why
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