Recommended Lean and Agile reading
This is a list of some of the books I have read and highly recommend. I have grouped them loosely by category but they are generally in no particular order. Read the Amazon reviews to figure out where to start… they’re all great books!
Recommended Lean-Agile books
Lean and Kanban – Basic Reading
The Toyota Way (Liker)
Lean Software Development (Poppendieck)
Implementing Lean Software Development (Poppendieck)
Lean Thinking (Womack & Jones)
The Toyota Production System (Ohno)
Lean and Kanban – further reading
Creating a Lean Culture (Mann)
Managing the Design Factory (Reinertsen)
Freedom from Command and Control (Seddon)
Freedom from Command and Control
The New Economics (Deming)
Learning to See (Rother & Shook)
Scrum and Agile – Basic Reading
Agile Project Management with Scrum (Schwaber)
Agile Estimating and Planning (Cohn)
Agile Software Development, 2nd edition (Cockburn)
Scrum and XP from the trenches (Kniberg)
Note: this is a free e-book that you can download from InfoQ (registration required)
User Stories Applied (Cohn)
Extreme Programming Explained, 2nd edition (Beck)
Scrum and Agile – further reading and topic-specific reading
Agile Retrospectives (Derby & Larsen)
Fearless Change (Manns & Rising)
Agile Coaching (Davies & Sedley)
Agile Testing (Crispin & Gregory)
Note: I have not yet fully read this book, but I own it, have browsed and read selected parts, and already recommend it.
Must Read Classics
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte)
The Goal (Goldratt)
The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks)
The Mythical Man Month
Peopleware (DeMarco & Lister)
Lesser known software books I highly recommend
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Glass)
The Laws of Software Process (Armour)
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