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.

Product Management #

• Badass: Making Users Awesome, by Kathy Sierra
• Business Model Generation, by Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
• Competing Against Luck, by Clayton M. Christensen
• Escaping the Build Trap, by Melissa Perri
• Inspired, by Marty Cagan
• 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

Product/Software Development #

• The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Lean Enterprise, by Barry O’Reilly, Jez Humble, and Joanne Molesky
• Impact Mapping, by Gojko Adzic
• Product Development Flow, by Donald G. Reinertsen

Agile & Lean Software Development #

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

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
• Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall Rosenberg
• The Secrets of Consulting, by Gerald Weinberg
• More Secrets of Consulting, by Gerald Weinberg
• 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

Problem-Solving & Sense-Making #

• Problem Solving 101, by Ken Watanabe
• Six Thinking Hats, by Edward de Bono
• The Toyota Kata Practice Guide, by Mike Rother
• Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother

Philosophy & Way of Life #

• Buddhism for Beginners, by Thubten Chodron
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, by William B. Irvine
• Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius (translated by Gregory Hays)
• The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life, by Epicetus
• The Choice, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Writing #

• On Writing, by Stephen King
• On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
• Weinberg on Writing, Gerald Weinberg