The Reading List for Agile Newbies

Barry Overeem created a list of must-reads for agile newbies:

  • The Agile Manifesto
  • The Scrum Guide – Jeff Sutherland, Ken Schwaber
  • The Power of Scrum – Rini van Solingen
  • Scrum: A Pocket Guide – Gunther Verheyen
  • Succeeding with Agile – Mike Cohn
  • The Agile Samurai – Jonathan Rasmusson
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • The Scrum Field Guide – Mitch Lacey
  • The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
  • Kanban – David J. Anderson
  • Clean Code – Robert C. Martin

Read his complete blogpost here: http://www.barryovereem.com/the-reading-list-for-agile-newbies/

Engage Everyone in Making Sense of Profound Challenges

Encourage people to listen and understand each other’s perspective on a profound, shared topic or challenge instead of trying to convince or persuade others to see it your way. In this article, Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem  explain how you can use the Liberating Structure “Conversation Café” to achieve this: https://medium.com/the-liberators/engage-everyone-in-making-sense-of-profound-challenges-c66e44ba00f2