Looking for interesting and useful books about Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement? Here are my book recommendations!
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The book on Valuable Agile Retrospectives
My first successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives: A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises is available in paperback on Amazon and many on-line book stores. You can download the eBook at InfoQ and Leanpub. The translated editions are available in my books.
The book is bundled in Great Agile Retrospective Books, Agile Practices and Tips, and Books by Ben Linders.
The book on Software Quality
I published my second book in September 2017. What Drives Quality explores how quality plays a role in all of the software development phases, it takes a deep dive into quality by listing the relevant factors of development activities that drive the quality of products.
This book provides a lean approach to quality, which analyses the full development chain from customer request to delivering products.
The book on the Agile Self-assessments Game
Januari 2019 I published my third book The Agile Self-assessment Game which explores a card game that I created and that is now played by teams all over the world. Teams use it to reflect on their own interworking and to agree upon the next steps for their agile journey. To play the game, buy a package of the book and cards.
I’m aiming this book at Scrum masters, agile coaches, consultants leading agile transformations, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically for anyone who is looking for an effective way to help their agile teams improve and increase the agility of their organization.
The book on Agile Impediments: Problem? What Problem?
My 4th book Problem? What Problem? has been published Ju;y 202. It is the first book specifically about dealing with impediments using agile thinking and practices. In this book, I explain why dealing with impediments matters and provide approaches to deal effectively with impediments in teams and beyond the teams. I’m also sharing experience stories from my work as a team member, Scrum master, consultant, coach, adviser, and trainer.
This book is for agile teams, Scrum masters, agile coaches, consultants, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically, anyone who is looking for an effective way to handle impediments or support people in doing so.
Upcoming book: Continuous Improvement
This book makes you aware of the importance of Continuous Improvement
, explores how it is engrained in agile, and provides suggestions that Scrum masters, agile coaches, well everybody, can use in their daily work to improve continuously and increase team and organizational agility.
This is a book about continuous improvement in agile software development. Continuous improvement is what makes agile work. It’s at the heart of agile, whether you use Scrum, Kanban or any other agile framework.
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