Good Reads #

Inspired by my good friend Thomas Lindqvist listing his good reads, here’s a some books that I have read and recommend—when the topic/category interests you.

We must continually learn to unlearn much what we have learned, and learn to learn that we have not been taught. Only thus do we and our subject grow. ~ R.D. Laing, The Politics of the Family and Other Essays

Product Management #

• Badass: Making Users Awesome, by Kathy Sierra
• Business Model Generation, by Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
• Competing Against Luck, by Clayton M. Christensen
• Empowered, by Marty Cagan
• Escaping the Build Trap, by Melissa Perri
• Inspired, by Marty Cagan
• Jobs to Be Done, by Anthony Ulwick
• Product Leadership, by Richard Banfield, Nate Walkingshaw, and Martin Eriksson
• Testing Business Ideas, by David Bland, Alex Osterwalder
• User Story Mapping, by Jeff Patton
• Value Proposition Canvas, by Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
• What Customers Want, by Anthony Ulwick

Product/Software Development #

• Getting Real, by 37signals
• Kanban from the Inside, by Mike Burrows
• Lean Enterprise, by Barry O’Reilly, Jez Humble, and Joanne Molesky
• Impact Mapping, by Gojko Adzic
• Product Development Flow, by Donald G. Reinertsen
• Strategize, by Roman Pichler
• The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Agile & Lean Software Development #

• Agile & Iterative Development, by Craig Larman
• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres
• Kanban and Scrum: making the most of both, by Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin
• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
• Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile, by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
• Scaling Lean & Agile Development, by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
• Scrum and XP from the Trenches, by Henrik Kniberg

Consulting, Coaching & Facilitation #

• Clean Language, by Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees
• Crucial Conversations, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
• Coaching Agile Teams, by Lyssa Adkins
• Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, by Sam Kaner
• Fearless Change by Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns
• Flawless Consulting by Peter Block
• Gamestorming, by Dave Gray
• Helping, by Edgar Schein
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dave Carnegie
• Humble Inquiry, by Edgar Schein
• Lean Change Management, by Jason Little
• Managing Oneself. by Peter F. Drucker
• Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall Rosenberg
• Organize for Complexity, by Niels Pflaeging
• Out of the Crisis, by W. Edwards Deming
• The Secrets of Consulting, by Gerald Weinberg
• More Secrets of Consulting, by Gerald Weinberg
• Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic Laloux
• The Coaching Habit, by Michael Bungay Stanier
• The Essential Drucker, "by" Peter F. Drucker
• The Progress Principle, by Teresa Amabile
• The Satir Model, by Virginia Satir
• The Skilled Facilitator, by Roger Schwarz
• Training from the Back of the Room, by Sharon Bowman

Teams & Teaming #

• Coaching Agile Teams, by Lyssa Adkins
• Creating Effective Teams, by Susan Wheelan
• Kunskapsintegration, by Philip Runsten, Andreas Werr
• Leading Teams, by Richard Hackman
• Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni
• Teaming, by Amy Edmondson
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni
• The Wisdom of Teams, by Jon Katzenbach

Personal Productivity & Leadership #

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey
• Drive, by Daniel Pink
• Essentialism, by Greg McKeown
• First Things First, by Stephen Covey
• Getting Things Done, by David Allen
• How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton M. Christensen
• Managing Oneself, by Peter Drucker
• Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, by Staffan Nöteberg
• Turn Your Ship Around, by David Marquet

Design & Problem-Solving #

• Are Your Lights On?, by Gerald Weinberg
• Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug
• Learning to Build, by Bob Moesta
• Making Things Work, by Yaneer Bar-Yam
• Microinteractions, by Dan Saffer
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form, by Christopher Alexander
• Problem Solving 101, by Ken Watanabe
• Rocket Surgery Made Easy, by Steve Krug
• Six Thinking Hats, by Edward de Bono
• Talking to Humans, by Giff Constable
• Testing with Humans, by Giff Constable
• The Art of Problem Solving, by Russel L. Ackoff
• The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman
• The Laws of Simplicity, by John Maeda
• The Toyota Kata Practice Guide, by Mike Rother
• Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother

Philosophy & Way of Life #

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, by William B. Irvine
• Buddhism for Beginners, by Thubten Chodron
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
• How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton Christensen
• Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius (translated by Gregory Hays)
• The Choice, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life, by Epicetus
• The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday

Writing #

• On Writing, by Stephen King
• On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
• The Elements of Style, by E.B. White
• Weinberg on Writing, Gerald Weinberg