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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