Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
Minto's method for structuring written and spoken argument. Ideas form a pyramid where each level summarises the ones below, groups are either deductive or inductive, and the introduction follows a situation, complication, question and answer sequence.
Savoia ran engineering at Google and spent years watching competent teams build products nobody wanted, which he calls the law of market failure. The book is about pretotyping, meaning testing whether a market exists before …
J.J. Sutherland writes about applying Scrum outside software, drawing on Scrum Inc's consulting work in manufacturing, banking, aerospace and government.
The definition of Scrum by the two people who created it, running to about thirteen pages in the November 2020 revision. It sets out the theory of empiricism and lean thinking, the five values, the three accountabilities, the five events and the three artefacts with their commitments.
The companion volume to Site Reliability Engineering, written to answer the question of how to put the ideas into practice. Where the first book describes how Google runs production, this one gives worked examples of service level …
Blank and Dorf's expansion of customer development into a step by step manual, running to several hundred pages of checklists. Covers customer discovery, validation, creation and company building, split into separate physical and web or mobile channel tracks.
A short book about the work that happens before any analysis, namely turning a vague request into a question that data can answer. Shron proposes a scoping framework covering the context you are working in, the need behind the …
Kahneman's summary of decades of work on judgement and decision making. System 1 is fast, automatic and associative while System 2 is slow, effortful and deliberate.
The practical companion to This Is Service Design Thinking, built as a handbook of activities rather than as an argument for the discipline. It covers research, ideation, prototyping, implementation and facilitation, with step by …
Shostack turns threat modelling into something a delivery team can do rather than something a specialist performs on their behalf. The method is built around a short sequence of questions, starting with what you are building and …
Cagan's guide to moving an existing organisation to the operating model described in Inspired and Empowered. It separates the model into four dimensions covering how you build, how you solve problems, how you decide what to work on, and how you organise.
Written by experimentation leaders from Microsoft, Google and Airbnb, this is the reference on A/B testing done properly. Covers metrics and the overall evaluation criterion, statistical power and sample sizing, the twyman's law …
Marquet captained a nuclear submarine and replaced the standard leader and follower model with one where authority moved to the people who held the information.
A reference of 125 research and design methods, each given a two page spread with a short description, the point in a project where it is useful, and a worked illustration.
Cohn's book on writing and working with user stories. Covers the card, conversation and confirmation model, the INVEST criteria for a good story, gathering stories through interviews, questionnaires, observation and workshops, and writing acceptance tests.