Collaborative Leadership Team’s Bookshelf

These books have been used as helpful guides and resources for our coaches and we want to share them with you!


The Scrum Master Files: Secrets Every Coach Should Know by Angela Johnson

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for (text only) by L.Adkins

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature) by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (Addison-Wesley Signature) by Kenneth S. Rubin

The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier, by Cy Wakeman

Reality Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results by Cy Wakeman

Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))by Jurgen Appelo

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) by Roman Pichler

Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant-Leadership by Geoff Watts

The Age of Agile by Stephen Denning

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (XP Series) by Kent Beck

Large Scale Scrum by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland

Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Atomic Habits by James Clear

User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton

Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership UPDATED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by John Witmore

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Using Brain Science To Make Training Stick by Sharon L. Bowman

Training from the Back of the Room! by Sharon Bowman

Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success by Stan Beecham

Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet

Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan

Boyd by Robert Coram

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright

StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Gallup

Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance by Jay Cross

Agile Project Management with Kanban by Eric Brechner

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by Dave J. Anderson

Essential Kanban Condensed by Dave J. Anderson and Andy Carmichael

Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-For-Purpose Organizations by Dave J. Anderson

Kanban from the Inside by Mike Burrows

Kanban in Action by Marcus Hammarberg

Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson

Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right by Dr. Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley

The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Dan & Chip Heath

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Bing West and James N. Mattis