The Book Club: Work on Your Continuous Learning Journey with Andrea Floyd and Hal Hogue

Agile Coaches' Corner

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by two AgileThought colleagues, Andrea Floyd and Hal Hogue.

In this episode, Dan, Andrea, and Hal are talking about the books that have been influential to them and what they learned from them. Continuous learning is a crucial piece of the work at AgileThought, and this is why today, you are invited to this special space called The Book Club.

Key Takeaways

• Books that bring new ideas to the practice:
• • A fairly common book that you should not take for granted: Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders, written by David Marquet. This book brings a great opportunity to reflect on your own role as an Agile Coach, it also delivers an important message on leadership and serving others.
  • Another book referring to work as a servant leader is Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley McChrystal. This book shares crucial practices to be more effective with our teams.
  • Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, written by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, Kim Spafford (a business fable with some great suggestions to the state of growing software companies to scale).
  • The nature of the challenges has changed over time; businesses are seeing more value in being flexible while responding to change and The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done, by Stephen Denning, is a number one must-read book for people experiencing Agile transformations, for them to be considered as holistic opportunities for an organization to create and sustain a shift in its cultures.
  • Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, is a great tool that explains the rules and practices for Scrum.
  • The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction, by Philippe Kruchten.
  • The Scrum Guide has some interesting references; this guide has been modified and updated over the years, which is the best proof of the constant need for flexibility and adaptation that lies in the core of Agile Teams.
  • Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek. This book is a great one to help teams and leaders recognize the reasons and purposes behind what they are doing.
  • Your Daily Scrum is a YouTube series where you can find (in 10 minutes or less) the answer to a question from the community related to Scrum which is the trigger for an insightful conversation about that topic.
  • Ted Lasso on Apple TV brings awesome content about leadership and humanity.

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