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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 BooksAgile 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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My book recommendations

Book Cover: Book: Some Ideas for Agile Team’s Retrospectives
Book: Some Ideas for Agile Team’s Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: Agile Transformation
Book: Agile Transformation
Book Cover: Book: The Toyota Way, Second Edition
Book: The Toyota Way, Second Edition
Book Cover: Book: Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Book: Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Book Cover: Book: Cynefin
Book: Cynefin
Book Cover: Book: Retrospectives Antipatterns
Book: Retrospectives Antipatterns
Book Cover: Book: Virtual Teams Across Cultures
Book: Virtual Teams Across Cultures
Book Cover: Book: Kanban Compass
Book: Kanban Compass
Book Cover: Book: Problem? What Problem?
Book: Problem? What Problem?
Book Cover: Book: Retrospectives for everyone
Book: Retrospectives for everyone
Book Cover: Book: Fail to Learn
Book: Fail to Learn
Book Cover: Book: The Power of Virtual Distance
Book: The Power of Virtual Distance
Book Cover: Book: The Unicorn Project
Book: The Unicorn Project
Book Testing Business Ideas
Book: Testing Business Ideas
Book Cover: Book: A Scrum Book
Book: A Scrum Book
Book Cover: Book: Clean Agile
Book: Clean Agile
Book Cover: Book: The Pragmatic Programmer - 20th Anniversary Edition
Book: The Pragmatic Programmer - 20th Anniversary Edition
Book Cover: Book: Mastering Professional Scrum
Book: Mastering Professional Scrum
Book Cover: Book: Impact
Book: Impact
Book Cover: Book: Helping People Change
Book: Helping People Change
Book Cover: Book: Right to Left
Book: Right to Left
Book Cover: Book: Internal Tech Conferences
Book: Internal Tech Conferences
Book Cover: Book: Mastering Collaboration
Book: Mastering Collaboration
Book Cover: Book: Understanding Agile Values & Principles
Book: Understanding Agile Values & Principles
Book Cover: Book: Thinking Remote
Book: Thinking Remote
Book Cover: Book: Empathy at Work
Book: Empathy at Work
Book Cover: Book: Retrospectives. A Scrum Master's Guide
Book: Retrospectives. A Scrum Master's Guide
Book Cover: Book: Risk-First Software Development: The Menagerie
Book: Risk-First Software Development: The Menagerie
Book Cover: Book: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Book: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Book Cover: Book: The Agile Self-assessment Game
Book: The Agile Self-assessment Game
Book Cover: Book: Evolvagility
Book: Evolvagility
Book Cover: Book: Refactoring
Book: Refactoring
Book Cover: Book: Invitation Leadership
Book: Invitation Leadership
Book Cover: Book: Gamification for Business
Book: Gamification for Business
Book Cover: Book: The Technology Takers
Book: The Technology Takers
Book Cover: Book: Designing the Future
Book: Designing the Future
Book Cover: Book: Can You Hear Me?
Book: Can You Hear Me?
Book Cover: Book: Evidence-Based Management
Book: Evidence-Based Management
Book Cover: Book: Unlocking Agility
Book: Unlocking Agility
Book Cover: Book: Future Ethics
Book: Future Ethics
Book Cover: Book: Openspace Beta
Book: Openspace Beta
Book Cover: Book: Reinventing Jobs
Book: Reinventing Jobs
Book Cover: Book: Bitwise: A Life in Code
Book: Bitwise: A Life in Code
Book Cover: Book: Agile Leadership in Practice
Book: Agile Leadership in Practice
Book Cover: Book: Driving Digital Strategy
Book: Driving Digital Strategy
Book Cover: Book: Humble Leadership
Book: Humble Leadership
Book Cover: Book: Code with the Wisdom of the Crowd
Book: Code with the Wisdom of the Crowd
Book Cover: Book: Emotional Science
Book: Emotional Science
Book Cover: Book: Enterprise Agility
Book: Enterprise Agility
Book Cover: Book: Essentials of Agile Transformation
Book: Essentials of Agile Transformation
Book Cover: Book: Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems
Book: Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems
Book Cover: Book: Adaptive Space
Book: Adaptive Space
Book Cover: Book: The Professional Product Owner
Book: The Professional Product Owner
Book Cover: Book: Testing in the Digital Age
Book: Testing in the Digital Age
Book Cover: Book: Applied Empathy
Book: Applied Empathy
Book Cover: Book: What's Your Digital Business Model?
Book: What's Your Digital Business Model?
Book Cover: Book: Lost and Founder
Book: Lost and Founder
Book Cover: Book: Work Together Anywhere
Book: Work Together Anywhere
Book Cover: Book: The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy
Book: The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy
Book Cover: Book: DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
Book: DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
Book Cover: Book: Accelerate
Book: Accelerate
Book Cover: Book: Unscaled
Book: Unscaled
Book Cover: Book: Kanban Maturity Model
Book: Kanban Maturity Model
Book Cover: Book: Fluid
Book: Fluid
Book Cover: Book: The Agile Developer's Handbook
Book: The Agile Developer's Handbook
Book Cover: Book: Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy
Book: Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy
Book Cover: Book: Quick Glance At: Agile Anti-Patterns
Book: Quick Glance At: Agile Anti-Patterns
Book Cover: Book: Software Wasteland
Book: Software Wasteland
Book Cover: Book: The Age of Surge
Book: The Age of Surge
Book Cover: Book: The Age of Agile
Book: The Age of Agile
Book Cover: Book: Agile Management
Book: Agile Management
Book Cover: Book: Improving Agile Retrospectives
Book: Improving Agile Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: Fit for Purpose
Book: Fit for Purpose
Book Cover: Book: #hyperlean
Book: #hyperlean
Book Cover: Book: Practical Kanban
Book: Practical Kanban
Book Cover: Book: Create Your Successful Agile Project
Book: Create Your Successful Agile Project
Book Cover: Book: The Startup Way
Book: The Startup Way
Book Cover: Book: The High-Impact PMO
Book: The High-Impact PMO
Book Cover: Book: What Drives Quality
Book: What Drives Quality
Book Cover: Book: Humans Vs Computers
Book: Humans Vs Computers
Book Cover: Book: Who Are You, Really?
Book: Who Are You, Really?
Book Cover: Book: Changing Times
Book: Changing Times
Book Cover: Book: Agile Software Development Complete Self-Assessment Guide
Book: Agile Software Development Complete Self-Assessment Guide
Book Cover: Book: Hacking for Agile Change
Book: Hacking for Agile Change
Book Cover: Book: Working with Coders
Book: Working with Coders
Book Cover: Book: Agendashift  (part 1)
Book: Agendashift (part 1)
Book Cover: Book: The Digital Quality Handbook
Book: The Digital Quality Handbook
Book Cover: Book: The Stupidity Paradox
Book: The Stupidity Paradox
Book Cover: Book: The Manager's Path
Book: The Manager's Path
Book Cover: Book: Scaling Teams
Book: Scaling Teams
Book Cover: Book: Product Mastery
Book: Product Mastery
Book Cover: Book: The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay
Book: The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay
Book Cover: Book: Soul Centered Leadership
Book: Soul Centered Leadership
Book Cover: Book: It's all upside down
Book: It's all upside down
Book Cover: Book: The Antifragility Edge
Book: The Antifragility Edge
Book Cover: Book: Tes: The Team Engagement Strategy
Book: Tes: The Team Engagement Strategy
Book Cover: Book: Agile Engagement
Book: Agile Engagement
Book Cover: Book: Make Them Grow: Give Feedback People Apply
Book: Make Them Grow: Give Feedback People Apply
Book Cover: Book: Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise
Book: Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise
Book Cover: Book: The Practice of System and Network Administration: Volume 1
Book: The Practice of System and Network Administration: Volume 1
Book Cover: Book: Elastic Leadership
Book: Elastic Leadership
Book Cover: Book: Timing is almost everything
Book: Timing is almost everything
Book Cover: Book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
Book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
Book Cover: Book: Virtual Leadership
Book: Virtual Leadership
Book Cover: Book: Effective Debugging
Book: Effective Debugging
Book Cover: Book: Managing for Happiness
Book: Managing for Happiness
Book Cover: Book: Liftoff
Book: Liftoff
Book Cover: Book: NoEstimates
Book: NoEstimates
Book Cover: Book: Essential Kanban Condensed
Book: Essential Kanban Condensed
Book Cover: Book: How To Lead A Quest
Book: How To Lead A Quest
Book Cover: Book: Strategize
Book: Strategize
Book Cover: Book: Retrospectives for Organizational Change
Book: Retrospectives for Organizational Change
Book Cover: Book: Putting Stories to Work
Book: Putting Stories to Work
Book Cover: Book: Agile Retrospective Kickstarter
Book: Agile Retrospective Kickstarter
Book Cover: Book: Practical DevOps
Book: Practical DevOps
Book Cover: Book: Commitment
Book: Commitment
Book Cover: Book: The Scrum Field Guide
Book: The Scrum Field Guide
Book Cover: Book: Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Book: Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Book Cover: Book: Creating Great Teams
Book: Creating Great Teams
Book Cover: Book: Toolbox for the Agile Coach
Book: Toolbox for the Agile Coach
Book Cover: Book: Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
Book: Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: Designing the Requirements
Book: Designing the Requirements
Book Cover: Book: The Lean IT Field Guide
Book: The Lean IT Field Guide
Book Cover: Book: Debugging Teams
Book: Debugging Teams
Book Cover: Book: The Agile Mindset
Book: The Agile Mindset
Book Cover: Book: The Scrumban [R]Evolution
Book: The Scrumban [R]Evolution
Book Cover: Book: Real-World Kanban
Book: Real-World Kanban
Book Cover: Book: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
Book: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
Book Cover: Book: Actionable Gamification
Book: Actionable Gamification
Book Cover: Book: More Fearless Change
Book: More Fearless Change
Book Cover: Book: Kanban Change Leadership
Book: Kanban Change Leadership
Book Cover: Book: The Scrum Culture
Book: The Scrum Culture
Book Cover: Book: Soft Skills
Book: Soft Skills
Book Cover: Book: The Software Craftsman
Book: The Software Craftsman
Book Cover: Book: More Agile Testing
Book: More Agile Testing
Book Cover: Book: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
Book: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
Book Cover: Book: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Book: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Book Cover: Book: Kanban from the Inside
Book: Kanban from the Inside
Book Cover: Book: The Goal
Book: The Goal
Book Cover: Book: Becoming a Catalyst
Book: Becoming a Catalyst
Book Cover: Book: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
Book: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: This is Agile
Book: This is Agile
Book Cover: Book: Kanban in Action
Book: Kanban in Action
Book Cover: Book: Reinventing Organizations
Book: Reinventing Organizations
Book Cover: Book: Scrum for the Rest of Us!
Book: Scrum for the Rest of Us!
Book Cover: Book: Fun Retrospectives
Book: Fun Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Book: The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Book Cover: Book: The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions
Book: The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions
Book Cover: Book: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Book: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Book Cover: Book: Turn the Ship Around!
Book: Turn the Ship Around!
Book Cover: Book: The People's Scrum
Book: The People's Scrum
Book Cover: Book: Scrum Product Ownership
Book: Scrum Product Ownership
Book Cover: Book: The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams
Book: The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams
Book Cover: Book: Agile Reflections
Book: Agile Reflections
Book Cover: Book: Impact Mapping
Book: Impact Mapping
Book Cover: Book: Essential Scrum
Book: Essential Scrum
Disciplined Agile Delivery
Book: Disciplined Agile Delivery
Book Cover: Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Book Cover: Book: The Lean Startup
Book: The Lean Startup
Book Cover: Book: RealityCharting
Book: RealityCharting
Book Cover: Book: The Economics of Software Quality
Book: The Economics of Software Quality
Book Cover: Book: The Clean Coder
Book: The Clean Coder
Book Cover: Book: The Psychology of Computer Programming
Book: The Psychology of Computer Programming
Book Cover: Book: The Secrets of Consulting
Book: The Secrets of Consulting
Book Cover: Book: Management 3.0
Book: Management 3.0
Book Cover: Book: Continuous Delivery
Book: Continuous Delivery
Book Cover: Book: Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams
Book: Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams
Book Cover: Book: Coaching Agile Teams
Book: Coaching Agile Teams
Book Cover: Book: Kanban
Book: Kanban
Book Cover: Book: Kanban and Scrum
Book: Kanban and Scrum
Book Cover: Book: Agile Coaching
Book: Agile Coaching
Book Cover: Book: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
Book: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
Book Cover: Book: The Business Value of Agile Software Methods
Book: The Business Value of Agile Software Methods
Book Cover: Book: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Book: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Book Cover: Book: The People CMM: A Framework for Human Capital Management
Book: The People CMM: A Framework for Human Capital Management
Book Cover: Book: iTeam: Putting the 'I' Back into Team
Book: iTeam: Putting the 'I' Back into Team
Book Cover: Book: The Gift of Time
Book: The Gift of Time
Book Cover: Book: Apollo Root Cause Analysis
Book: Apollo Root Cause Analysis
Book Cover: Book: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Book: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Book Cover: Book: Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development
Book: Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development
Book Cover: Book: Agile Retrospectives
Book: Agile Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: Agile Estimating and Planning
Book: Agile Estimating and Planning
Book Cover: Book: Value-Based Software Engineering
Book: Value-Based Software Engineering
Book Cover: Book: Competitive Engineering
Book: Competitive Engineering
Book Cover: Book: The ROI from Software Quality
Book: The ROI from Software Quality
Book Cover: Book: User Stories Applied
Book: User Stories Applied
Book Cover: Book: Agile Project Management with Scrum
Book: Agile Project Management with Scrum
Book Cover: Book: Balancing Agility and Discipline
Book: Balancing Agility and Discipline
Book Cover: Book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Book Cover: Book: Agile Modeling
Book: Agile Modeling
Book Cover: Book: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Book: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Book Cover: Book: Project Retrospectives
Book: Project Retrospectives
Book Cover: Book: The Mythical Man-Month
Book: The Mythical Man-Month

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