Recommended Reading

Repeatedly I get the question “What books should I read about Agile?”. Here is a list I have compiled. There are probably more good books, and if you find one, don’t hesitate to recommend it to me.

Agile

• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, by Tom & Mary Poppendieck.
• Agile Software Development, by Alistair Cockburn.
• Agile Software Development Ecosystems, by Jim Highsmith.
• Scrum and XP from the Trenches, by Henrik Kniberg.

Scrum

• Agile Software Development with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle.

XP

• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, by Kent Beck.
  The first edition is more practical, the second is re-written extensively to show how values fit together with the techniques and practices.
• Planning Extreme Programming, by Kent Beck & Martin Fowler.

Management & Leadership

• Agile and Iterative Development—A Manager’s Guide, by Craig Larman.
• Collaboration Explained : Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, by Jean Tabaka.
• Managing The Design Factory, by Donald Reinertsen.
• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen.
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams , by Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister.

Requirement Management & Modelling

• User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, by Mike Cohn.
• Agile modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process, by Scott Ambler.

Planning

• Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn.

TDD/Test/QA

• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, by Lisa Crispin.
• Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers, by Lasse Koskela.
• Test-Driven Development By Example, by Kent Beck.

Programming & Refactoring

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas.
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code, by Michael Feathers.
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler.
• Refactoring to Patterns, by Joshua Kerievsky.

Lean

• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, by Mary & Tom Poppendieck.