Bibliography

SAFe is based on our own work, the work of the contributors and SPCs worldwide, and an incredible body of knowledge about Agile, Lean Thinking, Lean product development, systems thinking, organizational change management, human potential, business strategy, management philosophy, and more. Each of the books and articles in the bibliography below have contributed materially to the authors’ perspectives and are integral to what makes SAFe ‘safe.’

  • “Agile Architecture: Strategies for Scaling Agile Development.” Scott Ambler. Agile Modeling, 2012. http://agilemodeling.com/essays/agileArchitecture.htm.
  • The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT. Jason Bloomberg. Wiley, 2013.
  • Agile Business: A Leader’s Guide to Harnessing Complexity. Bob Gower and Rally Software. Rally Software (Telemachus Press), 2013.
  • Agile Coaching. Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009.
  • Agile Contracts: Blast Off to a Zone of Collaborative Systems Building. Drew Jemilo. Agile 2015.
  • Agile Estimating and Planning. Mike Cohn. Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • “Agile in a Hardware/Firmware Environment: Draw the Cost of Change Curve.” Ken Rubin. http://www.innolution.com/blog/agile-in-a-hardware-firmware-environment-draw-the-cost-of-change-curve.
  • Agile Portfolio Management. Jochen Krebs. Microsoft Press, 2008.
  • Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products. Jim Highsmith. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
  • Agile Project Management with Scrum. Ken Schwaber. Developer Best Practices, 2004.
  • Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006.
  • Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game. Alistair Cockburn. Addison-Wesley, 2006.
  • Agile Software Development in the Large: Diving into the Deep. Jutta Eckstein. Dorset House, 2004.
  • Agile Software Development with Scrum. Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. Pearson, 2001.
  • Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise. Dean Leffingwell. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
  • Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
  • The Art Of Business Value. Mark Schwartz. IT Revolution, 2016.
  • Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed. Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, 2003.
  • Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company. James C. Collins and William C. Lazier. Prentice Hall Press, 1995.
  • The Birth of Lean. Koichi Shimokawa and Takahiro Fujimoto (eds.). Lean Enterprise Institute, 2009.
  • “Building Deep Supplier Relationships.” Jeffrey Liker and Thomas Y. Choi. Harvard Business Review. December 2004.
  • “Business trend: ‘E-shaped’ People, Not ‘T-shaped.’” Sarah Davanzo. http://culturecartography.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/business-trend-e-shaped-people-not-t-shaped.
  • Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Tim Brown. Harper Business, 2009.
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Robert C. Martin. Prentice Hall, 2008.
  • Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition. Lyssa Adkins. Addison-Wesley, 2010.
  • Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders. Jean Tabaka. Addison-Wesley, 2006.
  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation. Jez Humble and David Farley. Addison-Wesley, 2010.
  • Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk. Paul M. Duvall, Steve Matyas, and Andrew Glover. Addison-Wesley, 2007.
  • Crossing the Chasm. Geoffrey Moore. Harper Business Essentials, 1991, 2014.
  • Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams. Alistair Cockburn. Addison-Wesley, 2004.
  • The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace. S. Chris Edmonds. Wiley, 2014.
  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis. IT Revolution Press, 2016.
  • Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines. IBM Press, 2012.
  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. Eric Evans. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Daniel H. Pink. Riverhead Hardcover, 2009.
  • Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development. Scott Bain. Addison-Wesley, 2008.
  • The Enterprise and Scrum. Ken Schwaber. Microsoft Press, 2007.
  • Escape Velocity. Geoffrey Moore. Harper Business Essentials, 2011.
  • The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality. Joyce Nilsson Orsini (ed.). McGraw-Hill Education, 2012.
  • The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management. Peter F. Drucker. HarperBusiness, 2008.
  • Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. Kenneth S. Rubin. Addison-Wesley, 2012.
  • Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan Shalloway, Scott Bain, Ken Pugh, and Amir Kolsky. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
  • “Establishing an Agile Portfolio to Align IT Investments with Business Needs.” Joseph Thomas and Steven Baker, DTE Energy. http://www.jctnet.us/Professional/Agile/CD-ThomasBaker-EstablishAgilePortfolio-Paper.pdf.
  • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley, 2004.
  • Extreme Programming Installed. Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization. Peter M. Senge. Doubleday, 2006.
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Patrick M. Lencioni. Jossey-Bass, 2002.
  • “Fixing Scheduling with Agile at the VA.” Jason Bloomberg. Forbes. October 23, 2014.
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. North River Press, 2014.
  • Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Wiley, 2004.
  • Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects. Gojko Adzic. Provoking Thoughts, 2012.
  • Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash. Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. Addison-Wesley, 2006.
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Clayton M. Christensen. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
  • Inside the Tornado. Geoffrey Moore. Harper Business Essentials, 1995, 2004.
  • Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. David J. Anderson. Blue Hole Press, 2010.
  • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Landmarks of Tomorrow. Peter Drucker. Harper & Brothers, 1959.
  • Leading Change. John P. Kotter. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
  • Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration. Ken Pugh. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
  • Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility. Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, and James R. Trott. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
  • Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development. James Coplien and Gertrud Bjørnvig. Wiley, 2010.
  • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. Jezz Humble et al. O’Reilly Media, 2015.
  • Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban. Henrik Kniberg. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011.
  • The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development. Dantar P. Oosterwal. AMACOM, 2010.
  • Lean Product and Process Development. Allen C. Ward and Durward K. Sobek II. Lean Enterprise Institute, 2014.
  • Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  • Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers. Peter Middleton and James Sutton. Productivity Press, 2005.
  • The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Eric Ries. Crown Business, 2011.
  • Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Productivity Press, 2003.
  • The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company. Art Byrne and James P. Womack. McGraw-Hill Education, 2012.
  • Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams. Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. O’Reilly Media, 2016
  • The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production—Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Revolutionizing World Industry. James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. Free Press, 2007.
  • Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. Jurgen Appelo. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
  • Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer’s Toolkit. Donald G. Reinertsen. Free Press, 1997.
  • Managing for Excellence: The Guide to Developing High Performance in Contemporary Organizations. David L. Bradford and Allan R. Cohen. Wiley, 1997.
  • Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach (second edition). Dean Leffingwell and Don Widrig. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  • Manifesto for Agile Software Development. http://agilemanifesto.org/.
  • The Mythical Man-Month. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Addison-Wesley, 1995.
  • The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education. W. Edwards Deming. The MIT Press, 2000.
  • “New, Improved Keiretsu.” Katsuki Aoki and Thomas Taro Lennerfors. Harvard Business Review. September 2013.
  • “The New New Product Development Game.” Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Harvard Business Review, January 01, 1986.
  • Out of the Crisis. W. Edwards Deming. MIT Center for Advanced Educational Services, 1982.
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. IT Revolution Press, 2013.
  • Planning Extreme Programming. Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
  • The Power of Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish Extraordinary Things. George H. Labovitz and Victor Rosansky. Wiley, 1997.
  • Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum. Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. Addison-Wesley, 2010.
  • The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Donald G. Reinertsen. Celeritas Publishing, 2009.
  • Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota’s System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It. Michael N. Kennedy. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2003.
  • Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. Michael Hammer and James Champy. HarperBusiness, 2006.
  • “Refactoring.” Martin Fowler. www.refactoring.com.
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Martin Fowler et al. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
  • Refactoring Workbook. William Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  • Reinventing Organizations. Frederick Laloux. Nelson Parker, 2014.
  • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works. Ash Maurya. O’Reilly Media, 2012.
  • “Scaling Agility @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters, and Guilds.” Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson. October 2012.
  • Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum. Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. Addison-Wesley, 2008.
  • Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. Dean Leffingwell. Addison-Wesley, 2007.
  • Scrum and XP from the Trenches. Henrik Kniberg. lulu.com, 2015.
  • Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development. Corey Ladas. Modus Cooperandi Press, 2009.
  • Scrum Guides. Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. scrumguides.org.
  • Servant-Leadership Across Cultures: Harnessing the Strengths of the World’s Most Powerful Management Philosophy. Fons Trompenaars and Ed Voerman. McGraw-Hill, 2009.
  • “Shooting the Rapids: Managing Product Development in Turbulent Environments.” Marco Iansiti. California Management Review 38 (1995): 37 – 58.
  • Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development. Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang. Prentice Hall, 2003.
  • The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility. Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick. Addison-Wesley, 2008.
  • Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum. Mike Cohn. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
  • Switch. How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway Books, 2010.
  • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Stanley McChrystal, et al. Portfolio, 2015.
  • Test-Driven Development: By Example. Kent Beck. Addison-Wesley, 2002.
  • Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers. Lasse Koskela. Manning Publications, 2007.
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown and Company, 2000.
  • Toyota Global. http://www.toyota-global.com/sustainability/society/partners/supplier_csr_en.pdf.
  • Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results. Mike Rother. McGraw-Hill Education, 2009.
  • The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer. Jeffrey K. Liker. McGraw-Hill Education, 2004.
  • The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development. Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis. McGraw-Hill, 2011.
  • Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture. Em Campbell-Pretty. SpiritCast Network, 2016.
  • User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Mike Cohn. Addison-Wesley, 2004.
  • User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product. Jeff Patton and Peter Economy. O’Reilly Media, 2014.
  • “Using Both Incremental and Iterative Development.” Alistair Cockburn. STSC CrossTalk 21 (2008): 27 – 30.
  • Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation. Karen Martin and Mike Osterling. McGraw-Hill Education, 2013.
  • “What Is Systems Engineering?” International Council on Systems Engineering. http://www.incose.org/AboutSE/WhatIsSE.
  • The Wisdom of Crowds. James Surowiecki. Anchor, 2005.
  • Work Redesign. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham. Prentice Hall, 1980.

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