5 + 1 Questions to... Book summary

No interview this week but an overview of the books which came along already during the series. During the past 15 interviews, a lot of books came along.

Below I made an overview of the books suggested by "5 + 1 Questions to..." guests.

"The Scrum Guide: The Definitive Guide to Scrum. The rules of the game" by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland,

"Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" by Gene Kim

"The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" by Jeff Sutherland

Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1,200 percent.

"The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future" by J. J. Sutherland

The Scrum Fieldbook delivers a hands-on, practical approach to rapidly delivering value for companies and organizations.

"Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World" by General Stanley McChrystal

General Stanley McChrystal shares, based on his experience in the army a powerful new leadership model.

"The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses" by Eric Ries

Eric Ries shares The Lean Startup a new approach for changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

"Sprint: Solve Big Problems and test new ideas in just 5 days" by Jake Knapp

Sprint explains the process of solving big problems in 5 days using Design Sprints.

"Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us" by Dan Pink

Daniel explains the secret to high performance and satisfaction and the human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

"Who is Agile?" by Yves Hanoulle

A book of personal reflections on journeys where people stumbled on agile.

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in personal change" by Stephen R. Covey

"Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding under any conditions" by John Kotter

Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world.

"Leading Change" by John P. Kotter

John Kotter explains his 8 step process to lead successful change.

"The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization" by Peter M. Senge

Peter explains in this book the group problem solving using the system thinking method in order to convert companies into learning organizations.

"Echte Leiders Dienen: Voor leiders die het verschil maken" by Inge Nuijten

"Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out" by Michael Hamman

Michael explains how focusing on inner-agility through sensemaking, communication, and relationship intelligence can increase the outer agility of organizations.

"Rethinking Agile:" Why Agile teams have nothing to do with Business Agility by Klaus Leopold

Klaus explains in simple terms why organizations that adopt Agile tend to see these results, or should I say lack of results: Their products lose, or fails to attain, a customer focus.

"When will it be done: Lean-agile Forecasting to answer your customers most important question" by Daniel Vacanti

The definitive guide on Lean-Agile forecasting that gives you all the tools you need in order to answer your customers' most important question.

"Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum problems" by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller

Discover how to visualize your work, resolve impediments, and empower your teams to self-organize and deliver using advanced coaching and facilitation techniques that honor and support the Scrum values and agile principles

"Sociocratie 3.0: De businessnovelle die het beste uit mens en organisatie haalt" by Jef Cumps

"Who moved my cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life" by Spencer Johnson

“Dream teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart" by Shane Snow

The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together.

"Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition" by Lyssa Adkins

"How to become a future-proof leader" 9 Simple Steps to achieve better results faster with your team" by Simon Claes

"The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni

The 5 dysfunctions of a team describe the many pitfalls that teams face as they seek to "grow together" on their journey towards a high-performing team.

"The Agile Tao: Lao Tzu Refactored" by Peter Merel

The Agile Tao distills Lao Tzu into a guide to the Agile mindset, a simple way for people to live and work together in harmony.

"Scrum and XP from the trenches" by Henrik Kniberg

This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year’s time.

'Turn The Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level' by L. David Marquet

David Marquet shares his insights while being the captain of the USS Santa Fe submarine.

"Leadership and Self Deception": Getting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute

In this book, you can find insights on motivation, conflict, and collaboration that can benefit organizations and individuals during change.

"7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change" by Esther Derby

Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws people into the process so that instead of resisting change, they embrace it. 

5 + 1 Questions to... is an initiative by Wouter Gheysen, founder of Beyond Business Agility, a Business Agility training and coaching company providing Scrum Training, Scaled Agile Framework training and training on business agility related topics like Team dynamics, Visualisation, Process Efficiency and much more.

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