Essential introduction to background techniques
- Balic07 Effect Managing IT by Mijo Balic and Ingrid Ottersten, Copenhagen Business School 2007, ISBN 978-8763001762
- Brinkerhoff94 The Learning Alliance: Systems Thinking in Human Resource Development, Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Jossey-Bass 1997, ISBN 1555427111
- Gilb05 Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage, Tom Gilb, Butterworth-Heinemann 2005, ISBN 978-0750665070
- Matts11 Feature Injection: three steps to success by Chris Matts and Gojko Adzic
References for the numbers from the introduction
- Troubled £12bn NHS IT system to be scaled back, BBC News, 6 December 2009
- NHS pulls the plug on its £11bn IT system, The Independent, 3 August 2011
- Costs of US piloted programs by Claude Lafleur, 2010
- Also see [McManus08]
Other books and online articles
- Adzic12 Splitting user stories: the hamburger method, Gojko Adzic
- Berkun05 Art of Project Management, Scott Berkun,O’Reilly 2005, ISBN 978-0596007867
- Brown09 Change by Design: How Design Thinking Can Transform Organizations and Inspire Innovation, Tim Brown, Collins Business 2009, ISBN 978-0061766084
- Cohn04 User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Mike Cohn, Addison-Wesley Professional 2004, ISBN 978-0321205681
- Cohn06 I didn’t know I needed that, Mike Cohn, Better Software Magazine February 2006
- Gray10 Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo, O’Reilly Media 2010, ISBN 978-0596804176
- Harford11 Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, Tim Harford, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011, ISBN 978-0374100964
- Hohmann06 Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, Luke Hohmann, Addison-Wesley Professional 2006, ISBN 978-0321437297
- Hubbard10 How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business Douglas W. Hubbard, Wiley 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-62568-2
- Klein99 Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, Gary Klein, MIT Press 1999, ISBN 978-0262611466
- Lapouchnian05 Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: An Overview of the Current Research, Alexei Lapouchnian, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- Liedtka11 Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie, Columbia University Press 2011, ISBN 978-0231158381
- McManus08 A study in project failure by John McManus and Trevor Wood-Harper, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, June 2008
- Patton08a I don’t know what I want but I know how to get it, Jeff Patton, 2008
- Patton08b User Story Mapping, Jeff Patton 2008
- Patton08c The new user story backlog is a map, Jeff Patton 2008
- Pixton09 Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility by Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little, Kent McDonald, Addison-Wesley Professional 2009, ISBN 978-0321572882
- Ries11 The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, Crown Business 2011, ISBN 978-0670921607
- Scott99 Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott, Yale University Press 1999, ISBN 978-0300078152
- Shore05 Beyond Story Cards, James Shore, 2005
- Sibbet10 Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes And Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity David Sibbet, John Wiley and Sons 2010, ISBN 978-0470601785
- West11 Water-Scrum-Fall is the reality of Agile for most organisations today, Dave West
- Yu11 Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering, Eric Yu, Paolo Giorgini, Neil Maiden, John Mylopoulos; MIT Press 2011, ISBN 978-0262240550