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Freedom from Command and Control
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4.17 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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The Beginner's Guide To OKR
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4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
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4.46 avg rating — 16,340 ratings
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The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People
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Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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4.07 avg rating — 2,694 ratings
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Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations
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Neal Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 144 ratings
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When Will It Be Done?: Lean-Agile Forecasting to Answer Your Customers' Most Important Question
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4.41 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Behind human error : cognitive systems, computers, and hindsight
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4.32 avg rating — 63 ratings
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind - Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival
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Zombie Scrum Survival Guide (The Professional Scrum Series)
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4.35 avg rating — 102 ratings
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A Sense of Urgency
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John P. Kotter (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 14,952 ratings
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,883 ratings
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Reiß das Ruder rum!: Eine wahre Geschichte über Führung und darüber, wie Mitarbeiter zu Mitgestaltern werden
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L. David Marquet (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 20,824 ratings
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The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck: Practical Tips and Tricks for Launching and Operating SAFe Agile Release Trains
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Em Campbell-Pretty (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Scrum Guide - The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game
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Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say—and What You Don’t
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L. David Marquet (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
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Pretotype It
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Alberto Savoia (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Sprint: Test New Ideas, Solve Big Problems, and Answer Your Most Pressing Questions
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Jake Knapp (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 23,229 ratings
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Holacracy
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Brian J. Robertson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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Sketchnote Workbook, The: Advanced techniques for taking visual notes you can use anywhere
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4.15 avg rating — 429 ratings
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The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation
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4.11 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Head First Agile: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Agile Principles, Ideas, and Real-World Practices
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Jennifer Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Training from the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn
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4.35 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Toolbox for the Agile Coach – 96 Visualization Examples
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4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Scrum Mastery (Geoff Watts' Agile Mastery Series)
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4.23 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
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3.80 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
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Esther Derby (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 2,504 ratings
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The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
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3.94 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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Large-Scale Scrum: More with Less
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4.21 avg rating — 259 ratings
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The A3 Thinker's Action Deck: 71 Brainstorming Cards to Solve Problems, Improve, and Mentor
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Scrum and XP from the Trenches
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Henrik Kniberg (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
score: 55,
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Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming, A
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
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3.99 avg rating — 948 ratings
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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4.26 avg rating — 49,367 ratings
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Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both
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Henrik Kniberg (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
score: 51,
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Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
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Jurgen Appelo (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
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This Is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox
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4.18 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
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Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban
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Henrik Kniberg (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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Kanban in Action
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Marcus Hammarberg (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Would also recommend 'Velocity' by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland and Jeff Cox as an excellent 'Phoenix Project' like overview of TOC, Lean and Six Sigma.