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Bibliography

All citations in dooer academy follow APA 7 author-date style. The full reference list is below, grouped by topic.

Project management foundations

  • PMI (2021). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 7th Edition. Project Management Institute. ISBN 978-1628256642.
  • PMI (2017). The Standard for Program Management, 4th Edition. Project Management Institute. ISBN 978-1628251968.
  • PMI (2017). The Standard for Portfolio Management, 4th Edition. Project Management Institute. ISBN 978-1628251975.
  • Schwaber, K. & Sutherland, J. (2020). The Scrum Guide. scrumguides.org. (Free PDF.)
  • AXELOS (2015). Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3), Version 3. The Stationery Office.
  • PMI (2013). Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3), 3rd Edition. Project Management Institute.
  • Smith, M., Erwin, J., & Diaferio, S. (2005). Role and Responsibility Charting (RACI). PMI Practice Guide.
  • Heagney, J. (2016). Fundamentals of Project Management, 5th Edition. AMACOM. ISBN 978-0814437360.

Personal productivity / GTD

  • Allen, D. (2001). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Penguin. ISBN 978-0142000281.
  • Forte, T. (2022). Building a Second Brain. Atria Books. ISBN 978-1982167387.
  • Newport, C. (2016). Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Grand Central. ISBN 978-1455586691.
  • Clear, J. (2018). Atomic Habits. Avery. ISBN 978-0735211292.
  • Covey, S. (1989). The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Free Press. ISBN 978-1982137274 (30th anniversary ed.).

Kanban / flow / WIP

  • Ohno, T. (1988). Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Productivity Press. ISBN 978-0915299140.
  • Anderson, D. (2010). Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. Blue Hole Press. ISBN 978-0984521401.
  • Benson, J. & Barry, T. (2011). Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life. Modus Cooperandi. ISBN 978-1453802267.
  • Reinertsen, D. (2009). The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Celeritas. ISBN 978-1935401001.
  • Little, J. (1961). A Proof for the Queuing Formula: L = λW. Operations Research 9(3), 383–387.

Estimation

  • Boehm, B. (1981). Software Engineering Economics. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0138221225.
  • Cohn, M. (2005). Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0131479418.
  • McConnell, S. (2006). Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0735605350.
  • Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374533557.
  • Kahneman, D. & Tversky, A. (1979). Intuitive Prediction: Biases and Corrective Procedures. Management Science 12, 313–327.
  • Hubbard, D. (2014). How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, 3rd Edition. Wiley. ISBN 978-1118539279.

Retrospectives & feedback

  • Kerth, N. (2001). Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews. Dorset House. ISBN 978-0932633446.
  • Derby, E. & Larsen, D. (2006). Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. Pragmatic Bookshelf. ISBN 978-0977616640.

Meetings & leadership

  • Drucker, P. (1967). The Effective Executive. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0060833459 (revised ed.).
  • Drucker, P. (1954). The Practice of Management. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0060878979.
  • Lencioni, P. (2004). Death by Meeting. Jossey-Bass. ISBN 978-0787968052.
  • Horstman, M. (2016). The Effective Manager. Wiley. ISBN 978-1119244608.
  • Grove, A. (1983). High Output Management. Random House. ISBN 978-0679762881.
  • Cockburn, A. (2001). Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0201699692.

Psychological safety

  • Edmondson, A. (2018). The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Wiley. ISBN 978-1119477242.
  • Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly 44(2), 350–383.
  • Duhigg, C. (2016, February 25). What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. New York Times Magazine.
  • Brown, B. (2018). Dare to Lead. Random House. ISBN 978-0399592522.

Strategy & portfolio

  • Martin, R. & Lafley, A.G. (2013). Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 978-1422187395.
  • Kaplan, R. & Norton, D. (1996). The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 978-0875846514.
  • Doerr, J. (2018). Measure What Matters. Portfolio. ISBN 978-0525536222.
  • Cooper, R. (1990). Stage-Gate Systems: A New Tool for Managing New Products. Business Horizons 33(3), 44–54.
  • Goldratt, E. (1990). The Theory of Constraints. North River Press. ISBN 978-0884271666.
  • Moore, G. (1991, rev. 2014). Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition. HarperBusiness. ISBN 978-0062292988.

Skill acquisition (the tier framework)

  • Dreyfus, S. & Dreyfus, H. (1980). A Five-Stage Model of the Mental Activities Involved in Directed Skill Acquisition. University of California, Berkeley. (Technical report.)
  • Dreyfus, S. (2004). The Five-Stage Model of Adult Skill Acquisition. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 24(3), 177–181.

Interaction design

  • Norman, D. (2013). The Design of Everyday Things, Revised Edition. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465050659.

Hiring & people

  • Smart, G. & Street, R. (2008). Who: The A Method for Hiring. Ballantine. ISBN 978-0345504190.

Security / compliance reference

  • NIST (2024). Cybersecurity Framework v2.0. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  • AXELOS (2019). ITIL 4: Service Configuration Management Practice Guide. The Stationery Office.

Reading by track

If you're in… Read in this order
Solo Basic Allen (2001) → Clear (2018) → Norman (2013)
Solo Advanced Covey (1989) → Newport (2016) → Benson & Barry (2011) → Kerth (2001)
Solo Proficient Kaplan & Norton (1996) → Doerr (2018) → PMI Portfolio Standard (2017)
Team Lead Basic PMBOK 7 (PMI, 2021) → Cohn (2005) → Drucker (1967)
Team Lead Advanced RACI Practice Guide (Smith et al., 2005) → Lencioni (2004) → Cooper (1990) → McConnell (2006)
Team Lead Proficient Martin & Lafley (2013) → Grove (1983) → Edmondson (2018) → Kahneman (2011)

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