A Mapping of an Agile Software Development Method to the Personal Productivity of the Knowledge Worker. A Systematic Review of Self-Help Books.

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Theoretical Background 3
2.1 Knowledge Workers 3
2.2 Personal Productivity 5
2.3 Ten Knowledge Worker Productivity Factors 6
2.4 Scrum 8
3 Research Design 11
3.1 Research Scope 12
3.2 Search Strategy 13
3.2.1 Connection to Amazon.com 13
3.2.2 The Software Used to Perform the Search 14
3.3 Selection Strategy 16
3.4 Data Extraction and Data Synthesis Strategy 17
3.4.1 Identifying Personal Productivity Concepts 18
3.4.2 Comparison with the Theories of Personal Productivity of Knowledge
Workers 18
3.4.3 Mapping to the Concepts of the Scrum Framework 18
4 Software Design 19
5 Research Execution 25
5.1 Search 26
5.2 Selection 27
5.3 Data Extraction and Synthesis 31
6 Results 35
6.1 Common Underlying Concepts from the Self-Help Books 35
6.2 Relevance to Personal Productivity of Knowledge Workers 39
6.2.1 Knowledge Workers and the Concepts 39
6.2.2 Personal Productivity and the Concepts 41
6.2.3 The Ten Knowledge Worker Productivity Factors and the Concepts 42
6.3 Personal Productivity Concepts and Scrum 43
7 Personal Productivity Concepts 49
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8 Discussions and Conclusion 67
8.1 Personal Productivity 68
8.2 Personal Productivity and Scrum 71
8.3 Conclusion .72
References 75
Appendices 79
Appendix A: Results 81
A.1. Book Summaries 81
Appendix B: Data Synthesis .91
Appendix C: Data Extraction 117
C.1 Data Extraction Form .117
C.2 Author Data Extraction Form .121
Appendix D: Selection 123
D.1 Selection Execution .123
D.2 Selected Books .124
D.3 Excluded Books 127
D.3.1 About Organizational Productivity 127
D.3.2 About Managing Others & Leadership 132
D.3.3 Industry Specific 136
D.3.4 Not on Amazon Salesrank (is Zero) 139
D.3.5 About Life Fulfillment 141
D.3.6 Not Hardcover or Paperback 143
D.3.7 About Communications or Manipulation 144
D.3.8 Only One Book Per Author 145
D.3.9 About Team Productivity 146
D.3.10 Tool Specific 147
D.3.11 Too Specific Target Group 147
D.3.12 Job Hunting 148
D.3.13 Religion Specific 148
D.3.14 Summery Book 148
Appendix E: Search 149
E.1 Book Category Exclusion 149
E.1.2 Included Book Categories 150
E.1.3 Excluded Book Categories 150
E.2 Book Search Execution .153
E.2.1 Search Results 153
E.3 ReviewSearchHelper, Setup and Running 154