updated 2023
If you’ve been to one our classes, no doubt you’ve seen the Table o’ Agile Books in the back of the room. At Rocket Nine Solutions we value reading as a pathway to learning and personal transformation. We believe learning is the key to agility in your career.
In this post you’ll find a list of what our team considers some of the most important agile books to keep the learning going after class. Don’t be surprised if the list changes over time. If it were never to change… that wouldn’t be very agile. 🙂
Scrum Master Agile Books
- Essential Scrum Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process by Kenneth Rubin
- Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills For Software Project by Jean Tabaka
- Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership by Geoff Watts
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (Manga Edition)
- Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzer
- Switch: How to change when change is hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Scrum Product Owner Agile Books
- Scrum Product Ownership: Balancing Value from the Inside Out by Robert Galen
- Sprint : How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Knapp, Zeratsky, Kowitz
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Product Mastery: From Good to Great Product Ownership
- Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation by Van Der Bijl, Lokitz, Solomon, van der Pluijm, and van Lieshout
- INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age by Roman Pichler
- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton with Peter Economy
Developer Agile Books
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Forsgren, Kim, & Humble
- Code with the Wisdom of the Crowd: Get Better Together with Mob Programming by Mark Pearl
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition (The XP Series) by Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres
- The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis, & Allspaw
- The Phoenix Project : A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Kim, Baehr & Spafford
- Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases by Humble & Farley
Leadership in Agile Books
- The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
- Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change by Joiner and Josephs
- The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century by Stephen Denning
- Reinventing organizations: a guide to creating organizations inspired by the next stage of human consciousness by Frederic Lalou
- Strengths Based Leadership : Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath
- MINDSET The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
Scaling in Agile Books
- Succeeding With Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn
- Scaling Lean And Agile Development: Thinking by Craig Larman
- Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS by Craig Larman
Project Management Transition to Agile Books
Kanban Agile Books
- Kanban And Scrum – Making The Most Of Both by Kniberg & Skarin
- Kanban in Action by Hammarberg & Sunden
- Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by Anderson & Reinertsen
Personal Growth Books
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Don Miller
- The Responsibility Process: Unlocking Your Natural Ability to Live and Lead by Christopher Avery
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“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
—Charles T. Jones
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