Books: Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) | Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) | Kanban from the Inside (2014)

Recommended reading (Right to Left)

Selected references from each chapter of Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020).

Chapter 1, Right to left in the material world

Introducing Lean, the strategic pursuit of flow:

  • This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox,
    Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström (Rheologica Publishing, 2014)
  • What makes a Google team effective,
    Julia Rozovsky (rework.withgoogle.com, 2015)

Chapter 2, Right to left in the digital space

Introducing Agile and Lean-Agile:

  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation,
    Jez Humble & David Farley (Addison Wesley, 2010)
  • Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail,
    John Gall (Pocket Books, 1978)
  • Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work,
    John Seddon (Vanguard Publishing Limited, 2003)

Chapter 3, Patterns and frameworks

Popular Lean, Agile, and Lean-Agile frameworks and how they combine and complement each other:

  • Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love,
    Marty Cagan (John Wiley & Sons, 2nd edition, 2018)
  • Kanban from the Inside,
    Mike Burrows (Blue Hole Press, 2014)
  • The Scrum Guide,
    Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland (Scrum.org)
  • User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product,
    Jeff Patton and Peter Economy (O’Reilly Media, 2014)
  • Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”,
    Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, & David S. Duncan (Harvard Business Review, September 2016 issue)
  • This is Service Design Thinking: Basics-Tools-Cases,
    Marc Stickdorn & Jakob Schneider (BIS Publishers, 2010)
  • Government design principles,
    (GOV.UK)
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win,
    Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, & George Spafford (IT Revolution Press, 3rd edition, 2018)
  • The Bottleneck Rules: How to Get More Done (When Working Harder isn't Working),
    Clarke Ching (Independently published, 2018)

Chapter 4, Viable scaling

The Agile scaling frameworks, organisational viability, and the challenges of change:

  • Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds,
    Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson (blog.crisp.se, 2012)
  • Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®),
    Dean Leffingwell, Scaled Agile, Inc. (www.scaledagile.com)
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer,
    Donella Meadows (White River Junction, 2008)
  • Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development,
    Donald G. Reinertsen (Celeritas Pub, 2009)
  • Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation,
    Mike Burrows (New Generation Publishing, 2018)
  • The OpenSpace Agility Handbook,
    Daniel Mezick, Mark Sheffield, Deborah Pontes, Harold Shinsato, Louise Kold-Taylor, & Mark Sheffield (Freestanding Press, edition 2.2, 2015)
  • The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model,
    Patrick Hoverstadt (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
  • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,
    Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)

Chapter 5, Outside in

Strategy and governance in the wholehearted organisation:

  • Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations,
    Robert D. Austin (John Wiley & Sons, 1996)
  • Patterns of Strategy,
    Patrick Hoverstadt & Lucy Loh (Routledge, 2017)
  • Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business,
    John Mackey & Raj Sisoda (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
  • Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership,
    John Whitmore (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 4th edition, 2010)
  • Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works,
    A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)
  • The Timeless Way of Building,
    Christopher Alexander (OUP USA, 1980)

Chapter 6, Upside down

Servant Leadership and the supportive, ‘intentful’, customer-focussed organisation:

  • Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness,
    Robert K. Greenleaf (Paulist Press, 25th Anniversary edition, 2002)
  • Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?,
    Aaron Dignan (Portfolio Penguin, 2019)
  • The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results,
    Stephen Bungay (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011)
  • Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders,
    L. David Marquet (Portfolio, 2013)
  • Building Successful Communities of Practice: Discover How Connecting People Makes Better Organisations,
    Emily Webber (Blurb, 2018)
  • We the people: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy,
    John Jr. Buck & Sharon Villenes (Sociocracy.info Press, 2nd edition, 2019)
  • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World,
    General Stanley McChristal, with David Silverman, Tantum Collins, & Chris Fussell (Portfolio Penguin, 2015)
  • Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products,
    Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, & Trace Wax (O’Reilly Media, 2015)
  • Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption,
    Jutta Eckstein & John Buck (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018)
  • From Contempt to Curiosity: Creating the Conditions for Groups to Collaborate Using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling,
    Caitlin Walker (Clean Publishing, 2014)

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Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.


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