Book Reviews - Lean from the Trenches and Managing Oneself

Lean from the trenches

This is an excellent book by someone who is a fantastic advocate of lean. Henrik Kniberg has been involved with Spotify, were he introduced the team health check concept, and Lego amonst many others. This book deals with a government project for the police force and he talks through real examples and real experience about how they managed to deliver it on time and on budget. Catch him talking about the topic on vimeo

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Go read it and the many other excellent pieces of information he's given out.

Links to some of the excellent things he's produced with Spotify

• https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/
• http://blog.crisp.se/2012/11/14/henrikkniberg/scaling-agile-at-spotify 
• http://blog.crisp.se/2016/06/08/henrikkniberg/spotify-rhythm
• http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp

Managing Oneself

This Harvard Business Review essay is on taking responsibility to manage your own career as the workplace has evolved a lot since people would stay at one company for 40 years. Short read but with some resonating questions which can be summed up as being very open with self evaluation and knowing what it is that motivates you and what you can bring to the table.

Definitely worth a read for anyone who is feeling a little aimless