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Table of Contents

Research Report

16th Annual State Of Agile Report (opens in a new tab)2022

15th Annual State Of Agile Report (opens in a new tab)2021

14th Annual State Of Agile Report (opens in a new tab)2020

13th Annual State Of Agile Report (opens in a new tab)2019

SAFe Scrum Master

The New New Product Development Game (opens in a new tab)

Hirotaka Takeuchi & Ikujiro Nonaka

The Professional Scrummaster’s Handbook (opens in a new tab)

Stacia Viscardi

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (opens in a new tab)

Lyssa Adkins

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (opens in a new tab)

Esther Derby & Diana Larsen

SAFe 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises (opens in a new tab)

Richard Knaster & Dean Leffingwell

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (opens in a new tab)

Patrick Lencioni

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (opens in a new tab)

Patrick Lencioni

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (opens in a new tab)

Em Campbell-Pretty & Gene Kim

Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture (opens in a new tab)

Alex Yakyma

The Rollout: A Novel about Leadership and Building a Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFe® (opens in a new tab)

Alex Yakyma

The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches (opens in a new tab)

Roger Schwarz

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (opens in a new tab)

Nicole Forsgren PhD

SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager

SAFe 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises (opens in a new tab)

Richard Knaster & Dean Leffingwell

Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture (opens in a new tab)

Em Campbell-Pretty

The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development (opens in a new tab)

Dantar P. Oosterwal

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development (opens in a new tab)

Donald G. Reinertsen

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (opens in a new tab)

Chip Heath & Dan Heath

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (opens in a new tab)

Patrick Lencioni

Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (opens in a new tab)

Dean Leffingwell

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (opens in a new tab)

Patrick Lencioni

Lean Product and Process Development (opens in a new tab)

Allen Ward & Durward Sobek

That’s Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall–and Can Rise Again (opens in a new tab)

John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (opens in a new tab)

Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (opens in a new tab)

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (opens in a new tab)

Mike Cohn

Outliers: The Story of Success (opens in a new tab)

Malcolm Gladwell

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (opens in a new tab)

Steven Johnson

Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects (opens in a new tab)

Gojko Adzic

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams (opens in a new tab)

Jeff Gothelf

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (opens in a new tab)

Eric Reis

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (opens in a new tab)

Steve Gary Blank

Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation (opens in a new tab)

Karen Martin; Mike Osterling

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (opens in a new tab)

Ed Catmull; Amy Wallace

The Machine: A Radical Approach to the Design of the Sales Function (opens in a new tab)

Justin Roff-Marsh

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) (opens in a new tab)

Clayton M. Christensen

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (opens in a new tab)

Geoffrey Moore

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past (opens in a new tab)

Geoffrey Moore

Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age (opens in a new tab)

Roman Pichler

SAFe Agilist

Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation (opens in a new tab)

James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (opens in a new tab)

Jim Collins and Jerry I Porras

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant (opens in a new tab)

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Leading Change (opens in a new tab)

John P Kotter

Art of Public Speaking: The Original Tool for Improving Public Oration (opens in a new tab)

Dale Carnegie

Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (opens in a new tab)

Dean Leffingwell

SAFe 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises (opens in a new tab)

Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwell

Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World (opens in a new tab)

John Kotter

Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework (opens in a new tab)

Mik Kersten

The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development (opens in a new tab)

Dantar Oosterwald

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (opens in a new tab)

Eliyahu Goldratt

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (opens in a new tab)

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (opens in a new tab)

Lyssa Adkins

That’s Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall–and Can Rise Again (opens in a new tab)

John Kotter and Holder Rathgeb

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development (opens in a new tab)

Don Reinertsen

Lean Product and Process Development (opens in a new tab)

Allen Ward and Durward Sobeck II

Management 3.0

Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team (opens in a new tab)

Jurgen Appelo

Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (opens in a new tab)

Jurgen Appelo

Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World (opens in a new tab)

Brian J. Robertson

Punished by Rewards (opens in a new tab)

Alfie Kohn

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything (opens in a new tab)

Kerry, Joseph

Thinking, Fast and Slow (opens in a new tab)

Daniel Kahneman

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (opens in a new tab)

John Mackey, R. Sisodia

Who Am I? The 16 Basic Desires That Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities (opens in a new tab)

Steven Reiss

Handbook of Self-Determination Research (opens in a new tab)

Edward L. Deci, R M. Ryan

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (opens in a new tab)

Daniel H. Pink

Motivation and Personality (opens in a new tab)

Abraham H. Maslow

The Motivation to Work (opens in a new tab)

Frederick Herzberg

Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization (opens in a new tab)

Glenda H. Eoyang

Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory (opens in a new tab)

H. Letiche, M. Lissack

Complexity and Organizational Reality: Uncertainty and the Need to Rethink Management after the Collapse of Investment Capitalism (opens in a new tab)

Ralph D. Stacey

The Interaction of Complexity and Management (opens in a new tab)

Michael R. Lissack

The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (opens in a new tab)

Professor Fritjof Capra

Simply Managing: What Managers Do – and Can Do Better (opens in a new tab)

Henry Mintzberg

Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness (opens in a new tab)

F. Laloux, K. Wilber

Management Rev Ed (opens in a new tab)

Peter F. Drucker

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (opens in a new tab)

J. Rothman, Esther Derby

Freedom from Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service (opens in a new tab)

John Seddon

The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (opens in a new tab)

Professor Fritjof Capra

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business (opens in a new tab)

Patrick M. Lencioni

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (opens in a new tab)

Laszlo Bock

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (opens in a new tab)

John Mackey

Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School (opens in a new tab)

Richard Branson

Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling (opens in a new tab)

Edgar H. Schein

The Art of Powerful Questions: Catalyzing Insight, Innovation, and Action Staple Bound (opens in a new tab)

E. Vogt, J. Brown

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (opens in a new tab)

Peter M. Senge

Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn (opens in a new tab)

Sharon L. Bowman

The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (opens in a new tab)

John Roberts

The Ambidextrous Organization: Exploring the New While Exploiting the Now (opens in a new tab)

Jens Maier

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (opens in a new tab)

Ed Catmull

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development (opens in a new tab)

Donald G. Reinertsen

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (opens in a new tab)

Tom Kelley

Organizational Design: A Step-by-Step Approach (opens in a new tab)

Richard M. Burton

CInP and CInS (Certified Innovation Professional and Certified Innovation Strategist)

The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (opens in a new tab)

Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen

Innovation Governance: How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation (opens in a new tab)

Jean-Philippe Deschamps

The Whole Brain Business Book: Unlocking the Power of Whole Brain Thinking in Organizations, Teams, and Individuals (opens in a new tab)

Jean-Philippe Deschamps

Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation (opens in a new tab)

Gifford Pinchot, Ron Pellman

A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (opens in a new tab)

Warren Berger

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas (opens in a new tab)

Michael Schrage

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (opens in a new tab)

Edward De Bono

Six Thinking Hats (opens in a new tab)

Edward De Bono

What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services (opens in a new tab)

Anthony Ulwick

The Design Of Everyday Things (opens in a new tab)

Don Norman

Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom (opens in a new tab)

Ilpo Koskinen, John Zimmerman, Thomas Binder, Johan Redstrom, Stephan Wensveen

Strategic Market Research: A Guide to Conducting Research that Drives Businesses (opens in a new tab)

Anne E. Beall

StoryBranding 2.0: Creating Stand-Out Brands Through The Power of Story (opens in a new tab)

Jim Signorelli

Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact (opens in a new tab)

Annette Simmons

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (opens in a new tab)

Henry William Chesbrough

The Wisdom of Crowds (opens in a new tab)

James Surowiecki

The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge (opens in a new tab)

Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble

The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization (opens in a new tab)

Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer, Clayton M. Christensen

Certified Design Thinking Professional

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm (opens in a new tab)

Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, Tom Peters

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (opens in a new tab)

Tim Brown

The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (opens in a new tab)

Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen

101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization (opens in a new tab)

Vijay Kumar

The Design Of Everyday Things (opens in a new tab)

Don Norman

A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (opens in a new tab)

Warren Berger

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas (opens in a new tab)

Michael Schrage

SAFe DevOps

Continuous Delivery: (opens in a new tab)Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (opens in a new tab)

Jez Humble; David Farley

The Phoenix Project: (opens in a new tab)A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (opens in a new tab)

Kevin Behr; Gene Kim; George Spafford

The DevOps Handbook: (opens in a new tab)How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology (opens in a new tab)

Patrick Debois; Gene Kim; Jez Humble; John Willis

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (opens in a new tab)

Antonio Garcia Martinez

How to Measure Anything: (opens in a new tab)Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business (opens in a new tab)

Douglas Hubbard

SAFe Agile Software Engineering

Clean Code: (opens in a new tab)A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (opens in a new tab)

Robert C. Martin

Lean Software (opens in a new tab)Development: An Agile Toolkit (opens in a new tab)

Tom Poppendieck; Mary Poppendieck

Implementation Patterns (opens in a new tab)

Kent Beck

Test Driven Development: (opens in a new tab)By Example (opens in a new tab)

Kent Beck

Extreme Programming Explained (opens in a new tab)

Kent Beck

SAFe Architects

Cultivating Communities of Practice (opens in a new tab)

E. Wenger, R. McDermott

Tribal Unity: (opens in a new tab)Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture (opens in a new tab)

EM Campbell-Pretty

Transformational Leadership (opens in a new tab)

Bernard M. Bass

XLR8: (opens in a new tab)A Prophetic & Practical Blueprint to Double Your Church (opens in a new tab)

John P. Kotter

Reactive Design Patterns (opens in a new tab)

Roland Kuhn Dr., J. Allen

Design patterns: (opens in a new tab)elements of reusable object-oriented software (opens in a new tab)

Erich Gamma, R. Helm

Pattern-Oriented Software A System of Patterns (opens in a new tab)

Buschmann, Frank, Meunier

Building Evolutionary Architectures (opens in a new tab)

Neal Ford, R. Parsons

Continuous Architecture (opens in a new tab)

Murat Erder, P. Pureur

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (opens in a new tab)

Martin Fowler

Domain-Driven Design: (opens in a new tab)Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (opens in a new tab)

Eric Evans

Lean Portfolio Management

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (opens in a new tab)

Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur

DevOps Institute

Continuous Deliver (opens in a new tab)

Jez Humble, David Farley

DevOps Handbook (opens in a new tab)

Gene Kim; Patrick Debois; John Willis; Jez Humble

The Phoenix Project (opens in a new tab)

Gene Kim; Kevin Behr; George Spafford

The Art of Business Value (opens in a new tab)

Mark Schwartz; Gene Kim

The DevOps Adoption Playbook (opens in a new tab)

Sanjeev Sharma

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: (opens in a new tab)Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (opens in a new tab)

Nicole Forsgren PhD; Jez Humble; Gene Kim