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As coaching is a journey for both coach and coachee, here is the list of recommended books the Coach can read to sharpen her / his skills. This book selection is a limited set from countless books on the Coaching domain. Sincere apology in advance if important books are missed out in the list (unknown to us) or your favorite book is missing :)
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This is the list of recommended books for the ICP CAT participants to read and enrich their knowledge about different aspects which help them to be better Leaders. The books are grouped under categories and the categories are ordered in the alphabetical order
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| # | Book Name | Author |
| 1 | Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great | Ken Schwaber, Diana Larsen, Esther Derby |
| 2 | User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development | Mike Cohn |
| 3 | Impact Mapping | GojkoAdzic |
| 4 | Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams | Jeff Gothelf |
| 5 | Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer | Steven L. Goldman Roger N Nigel, Kenneth Preiss |
| 6 | Agile Software Requirements | Dean Leffingwell |
| 7 | The Power of Servant Leadership | Robert Greenleaf |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 8 | Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition | Lyssa Adkins |
| 9 | Training from the back of the room | Sharon L Browman |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 10 | Agile Estimating and Planning | Mike Cohn |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 11 | Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results | Mike Rother |
| 12 | Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit | Tom Poppendieck; Mary Poppendieck |
| 13 | The Goal | Eliyahu M Goldratt |
| 14 | The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development | Donald G Reinertsen |
| 15 | The Lean Machine | Dantar P. Oosterwal |
| 16 | Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation | Karen Martin and Mike Osterling |
| 17 | Lean Product and Process Development | Allen Ward and Durward Sobek II |
| 18 | Toyota Production System: Beyond Large Scale Production | Taiichi Ohno |
| 19 | Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno | Takehiko Harada |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 20 | Management 3.0 Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders | Jurgen Appelo |
| 21 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Third Edition | Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister |
| 22 | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable | Patrick M. Lencioni |
| 23 | Leading Apple With Steve Jobs: Management Lessons From a Controversial Genius | Jay Elliot |
| 24 | The Steve Jobs Way:iLeadership for a New Generation | Jay Elliot; William L. Simon |
| 25 | Switch: HOW TO CHANGE THINGS WHEN CHANGE IS HARD | Chip Heath and Dan Heath |
| 26 | The Fifth Discipline: THE ART AND PRACTICE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION | Peter M. Senge |
| 27 | The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education | Edward Deming |
| 28 | Out of the Crisis | Edward Deming |
| 29 | The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality | Diana Deming Cahill, Joyce Orsini, W.Edwards Deming |
| 30 | The New New Product Development Game: https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game | Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka |
| 31 | Influence | Robert Cialdini |
| 32 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | R. Stephen Covey |
| 33 | Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us | Daniel H Pink |
| 34 | Nine Things Successful People Do Differently | Heidi Grant Halvorson |
| 35 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies | Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras |
| 36 | OUTLIERS | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 37 | WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM | Steven Johnson |
| 38 | Zero to One | Peter Thiel |
| 39 | Tribal Leadership | Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright |
| 40 | How to measure anything: Finding the value of Intangibles in Business | Douglas Hubbard |
| 41 | The Lean Startup | Eric Reis |
| 42 | The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win | Steve Blank |
| 43 | The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership | Richard Branson |
| 44 | Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant | Kim |
| 45 | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change | Charles Duhigg |
| 46 | Death by Meeting : A Leadership Fable . . . About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business | Patrick Lencioni |
| 47 | Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team | Jurgen Appelo |
| 48 | Creativity Inc | Ed Catmull |
| 49 | Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World | Brian J. Robertson |
| 50 | Leading Change | John P Kotter |
| 51 | The Machine That Changed the World | James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos |
| 52 | The Art of Public Speaking | Dale Carnegie |
| 53 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| 54 | The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success | Rich Karlgaard |
| 55 | The Machine: A Radical Approach to the Design of the Sales Function | Justin Roff-Marsh |
| 56 | Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution | Tom Peters |
| 57 | In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies | Thomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman Jr. |
| 58 | When | Daniel Pink |
| 59 | Powerful | Patty McCord |
| 60 | Great at Work | Morten Hansen |
| 61 | Rise and Grind | Daymond John |
| 62 | The Culture Code | Daniel Coyle |
| 63 | Big Potential | Shawn Achor |
| 64 | Endure | Alex Hutchinson |
| 65 | The CEO Next Door | Elena Botelho and Kim Powell |
| 66 | Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone | Satya Nadella |
| 67 | The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 68 | Managing for Excellence | David L. Bradford and Allan R. Cohen |
| 69 | The Effective Executive | Peter Drucker |
| 70 | The essential Drucker | Peter Drucker |
| 71 | Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency | Tom DeMarco |
| 72 | The Mythical Man-Month | Fred Brooks |
| 73 | Good to Great | Jim Collins |
| 74 | Nonviolent Communication | Marshall Rosenberg |
| 75 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace. |
| 76 | The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results | Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan |
| 77 | What Got You Here Won't Get You There | Marshall Goldsmith |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 78 | SAFe® 4.0 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Software and Systems Engineering | Dean Leffingwell |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 79 | The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook | Stacia Viscardi |
| 80 | Agile Software Development with SCRUM | Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 81 | Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship | Robert C. Martin |
| 82 | Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, Video Enhanced Edition | Jez Humble; David Farley |
| 83 | The Phoenix Project | Kevin Behr; Gene Kim; George Spafford |
| 84 | Imeplementation Patterns | Kent Beck |
| 85 | Test Driven Development: By Example | Kent Beck |
| 86 | Extreme Programming Explained | Kent Beck |
| 87 | Extreme Programing Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition | Kent Beck |
| 88 | The DevOps Hand Book | Patrick Debois; Gene Kim; Jez Humble; John Willis |
| 89 | Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley | Antonio Garcia Martinez |
| # | Book Name | Author |
| 90 | Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think | Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler |
| 91 | Thinking, Fast and slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| 92 | A whole new mind: Moving from Information Age to Conceptual Age | Daniel H Pink |
| 93 | Out of Minds: learning to be creative | Ken Robinson |
| 94 | The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything | Ken Robinson |
| 95 | MASTERY | Robert Greene |
| 96 | BOLD | Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler |
| 97 | Tomorrowland | Steven Kotler |
| 98 | MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING | Victor Frankl |
| 99 | BORN STANDING UP | Steve Martin |
| 100 | Quiet | Susan Cain |
| 101 | ANTIFRAGILE | Nassim Taleb |
| 102 | MINDSET | Carol Dweck |
| 103 | Applied Imagination | Alex Osborn |
| 104 | Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life | Kabat-Zinn, J |
| 105 | The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions | Kenji Kawakami |
| 106 | Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery | Scott Kelly |
| 107 | When breath becomes air | Paul Kalanithi |
| 108 | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande |
| 109 | Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler |
| # | Website Details | For |
| 1 | Scaled Agile Frameworks: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/ https://less.works/ https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScaling.pdf | SAFe LeSS Spotify |
| 2 | https://www.icagile.com/ | ICAgile |
| 3 | https://www.scrumalliance.org/ | Scrum Alliance |
| 4 | https://www.scrum.org/ | Scrum Org |
| 5 | https://coachfederation.org/ | International Coach Federation |
| 6 | http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/ | Reinventing Organizations |
Reading coaching books helps Agile professionals develop empathy, communication skills, and techniques for team empowerment, crucial for successful Agile practices.
Lean principles focus on value and waste reduction, aligning well with Agile methodologies and helping coaches guide teams towards more efficient processes.
Beginner coaches should consider foundational books like Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins and The Lean Startup by Eric Ries for a solid grounding.
Yes, understanding technical concepts like continuous delivery and DevOps empowers Agile coaches to better support technical teams.
Start with categories that address your current challenges, or pick a mix from foundational Agile books and leadership guides to broaden your perspective.
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