Books I have read (HR – Highly Recommend, R – Recommend)
Scrum
- (HR) The Scrum Filed Guide: Practical Advice for your first year by Mitch Lacey
- (HR) Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins
- (HR) Essential Scrum by Kenneth Rubin
- (HR) Succeeding with Agile: Software Development with Scrum by Mike Cohn
- (HR) Agile Product Management with Scrum by Roman Pichler
- (HR) Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
- (HR) Scrum: How to do twice the work in half the time by Jeff Sutherland
- (HR) Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips by Ilan Goldstein
- (R) Agile project management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber
Agile/Lean Mindset
- (HR) Extreme Programming (XP) Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck and Cynthis Andres
- (HR) Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn
- (HR) Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success by Amr Elssamadisy
- (HR) Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
- (HR) Lean from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
- (HR) The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- (HR) Lean UX: Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- (HR) User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton
- (HR) Principles of Product Development Flow by Don Reinertsen
- (HR) The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
- (HR with warning) The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim et al. This is a little more technical but not bad.
- (HR) Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team by Jurgen Appelo
- (HR) Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
- (HR with a warning) Out of the Crisis by Edwards Deming. This one is on the longer side and has many older case studies. The beginning of the book is great.
- (R) Agile Project management for dummies
Agile Transition/Transformation
- (HR) The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge
- (HR) Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software by Gojko Adzic
- (HR) Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny et al.
- (HR) The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success by Amr Elssamadisy
- (R) How Google Tests Software by James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, and Jeff Carollo
- (R) Management 3.0: Leading Developers, Developing Agile Leaders by Jurgen Appelo
Agile at Scale
- (HR) Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
- (HR) Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
Technical Practices
- (HR) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (he revised the 1st edition in 2018, yay!)
- (HR) The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
- (HR) Test-Driven Development by Example by Kent Beck
- (HR) Clean Code by Uncle Bob Martin
- (HR) Pair Programming Illuminated by Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler
- (HR) Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble. This gets a little technical in the later chapters. First section is good for most anyone to read.
- (HR) BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle by John Ferguson Smart. This is little more technical. Has working examples to program to get the most value out of the book, I would recommend implementing the examples.
- (HR) The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers by Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, and Aslak Hellesoy
Miscellaneous
- (HR) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
- (HR) Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston
- (HR) Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies
- (HR) Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects by Gojko Adzic
Books I have heard good things about but haven’t read, yet
- The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink
- Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
- The Business Value of Agile Software Methods by Dr. David Rico
- Agile Game Development with Scrum by Clinton Keith
- Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal et al.
Videos
- PO in a Nutshell by Henrik Kniberg
- Scrum et al. by Ken Schwaber
- What is Scrum? by Scrum Alliance
- Introduction to Scrum – 7 minutes by Stephen Steadman
- Professional Software Development by Uncle Bob
- Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob
- Test-driven develoment: Write better code in less time by Evan Dorn
- Drive by Dan Pink
- Spotify Engineering Culture (Part 1) by Henrik Kniberg
- Spotify Engineering Culture (Part 2) by Henrik Kniberg
- Spotify Engineering Culture at Smidig Oct 2014 by Henrik Kniberg
Blogs
- Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn
- Innolution Blog by Ken Rubin
- Business Craftsmanship by Tobias Mayer
- Sources of Insight by J.D. Meier
- Crisp’s Blog
- Senex Rex Blog
Local DC Agile-focused groups (if you don’t live in DC, use meetup.com to find one):
- Agile Leadership Network
- DC Scrum User Group
- DC Organizational Agility Practitioners
- Agile NOVA
- DC Agile UG
- Scaling Agile NoVA
- DC Continuous Delivery
- DevOpsDC
Related Blog Posts
- Top 30 Agile Books for ScrumMasters
- Top 20 Recommended Resources by AgileLib.net
- Elephant Carpaccio (Micro-slicing Stories) facilitation guide by Alistair Cockburn and Henrik Kniberg
What are some resources that you have found useful in your agile/lean journey?