I’ve been talking with a lot of people about the book “Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines, and I just found a list of the principles from that book. http://www.vincehuston.org/books/marines_30.html
I know that this book has been passed around in the Scrum Master community for the last 3 years, and probably the general agile development community before that.
What does a book about the Marine Corps have to do with agile software development?
You may be surprised.
My personal favorite is
13. Manage by end state and intent. [p98]
Tell people what needs to be accomplished and why, and leave details to them.
What is yours?