Recommended Reading
Our coaches have put together a list of books they recommend to have on any agile professional’s bookshelf.
Product Owner Reading List
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives.
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
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The Lean Startup
How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses.
Eric Ries
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Value Proposition Design
How to Create Products and Services Customers Want.
Alexander Osterwalder
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Inspired
How to Create Tech Products Customers Love.
Alexander Osterwalder
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The Design Thinking Playbook
Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses, and Ecosystems.
Michael Lewrick
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Learn to Program
A Place to Start for the Future Programmer.
Chris Pine
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Strategize
Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age.
Roman Pichler
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The Professional Product Owner
Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage.
Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham
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The Evidence-Based Management Guide
Measuring value to enable improvement and agility.
Scrum.org
Scrum Master Reading List
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Succeeding with Agile
Software Development Using Scrum
Mike Cohn
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Agile Retrospectives
Making Good Teams Great.
Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
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Coaching Agile Teams
A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
Lyssa Adkins
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Scrum Mastery
From Good To Great Servant-Leadership.
Geoff Watts
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User Story Mapping
Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product.
Jeff Patton
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Extreme Ownership
How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win.
Jocko Willink
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Extreme Programming Explained
Embrace Change.
Kent Beck
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Toolbox for the Agile Coach
Visualization Examples, How great teams visualize their work.
Jimmy Janlén
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Agile Estimating and Planning
The definitive, practical guide to estimating and planning agile projects.
Mike Cohn
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Workout
Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients.
Jurgen Appelo
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The Scrum Guide
The definitive guide to Scrum; The rules of the game.
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland
Agile Coaches Reading List
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Who Do We Choose to Be?
Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Leadership Is Language
The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don’t.
L. David Marquet
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Brave New Work
Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
Aaron Dignan
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Racing for the bomb
Leslie Groves, the manhattan project's indispensable man.
Robert S. Norris
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The Fear Bubble
Harness Fear and Live Without Limits.
Ant Middleton
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Managing Technical Debt
Reducing Friction in Software Development
Phillipe Kruchten, Robert Nord and Ipek Ozkaya
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Training from the Back of the room
65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn.
Sharon Bowman
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The DevOps Handbook
How to create world class agility, reliability and security in technology organisations.
Mike Cohn