3.81 avg rating — 962 ratings

"The Holy Writ."

3.97 avg rating — 898 ratings

"Holy Writ II"

3.71 avg rating — 1,538 ratings

"One of the basic books."

3.87 avg rating — 465 ratings

"Not only the book that introduces SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), but a long, hard book that will teach you a ton about thinking through products in a way that will support Agile."

3.96 avg rating — 3,361 ratings

"One that I give people who just want a primer."

4.14 avg rating — 2,635 ratings

""How do I estimate projects if I go Agile?" is every manager's question. Here's how."

3.84 avg rating — 1,645 ratings

"Good-not-great book that gives a strong intro to Agile product thinking"

3.97 avg rating — 118,637 ratings

"Great book on getting creative work done in a chaotic world that's trying to keep you from doing it."

3.99 avg rating — 3,380 ratings

"You'll do Scrum better if you understand and can adapt some basic Kanban techniques - even if you don't go full Scrumban."

3.92 avg rating — 773 ratings

"Stepping a little out of the lane to link business and technology on a broad front."

4.03 avg rating — 23,050 ratings

"Implementing and maintain Agile is change management."

4.03 avg rating — 5,455 ratings

"Why empiricism matters. Agile is empirically-driven software development."

4.09 avg rating — 6,125 ratings

"Why the typical perceptions of risk and probability are wrong (links to Taleb)."

3.95 avg rating — 3,561 ratings

"Scrum is emergent management. "

4.19 avg rating — 8,098 ratings

"Off-the-wall biography of one of the great strategic thinkers of our time. His work is equally applicable to what we do, and what he did was - in part - to introduce many of the concepts that drive Agile to military thinking."

3.77 avg rating — 4,226 ratings

"Fail fast, fail often."

3.94 avg rating — 790 ratings

"Although these stories are from the military, everyone who has worked on a large software project will appreciate them ... and maybe learn some lessons."

3.99 avg rating — 1,284 ratings

"Special Forces are the Agile practitioners of the military art. There is a lot to learn from them, and from the cultural issues facing them as they work in the context of a large, bureaucratic institution."

3.35 avg rating — 43 ratings

"Database development is one place Agile teams struggle - here's a good primer."

3.88 avg rating — 83 ratings

"Agile doesn't exist in a vaccuum - it's part of the culture of the organization - here's something from the guy who wrote the paper that inspired Agile thinking."

3.70 avg rating — 273 ratings

"Great application of Agile to product development - the upstream from coding part."

4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings

"Great, foundational book on non-agile requirements analysis. Many lessons applicable to Agile."

3.79 avg rating — 581 ratings

"This book will help you manage your way to high performance."

4.08 avg rating — 71,404 ratings

"One of the key books in any discipline. Shows why we often look at the wrong indicators and misinterpret them."

3.82 avg rating — 1,116 ratings

"A good introduction to the challenge of QA in an Agile process."

3.79 avg rating — 82 ratings

"Great alternative to SAFe (to me, seems less different that the author suggests)."

3.94 avg rating — 89 ratings

"Key work - lean/flow management is all about identifying and targeting bottlenecks."

3.97 avg rating — 20,879 ratings

"Brilliant book on the psychology of getting things done - applies to projects and transformations as well."

3.98 avg rating — 3,109 ratings

"Here's a way to predict and anticipate problems, and change your mindset away from being reactive."

3.81 avg rating — 2,708 ratings

"What's it like to work in an empowered organization?"

4.12 avg rating — 422 ratings

"Great primer on straight-up Kanban; good alternative to Scrum, or can be blended for Scrumban."

4.06 avg rating — 52 ratings

"How do you implement Kanban at the organizational level? This book can help."

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings

"What's it like to live in a lean enterprise?"

4.15 avg rating — 5,811 ratings

"Overcomplication is one of the key indicators of project failure. How do you meet business goals and simplify?"

3.98 avg rating — 911 ratings

"What's it like to work on an Agile team? How can you individually contribute and succeed?"

4.19 avg rating — 2,526 ratings

"The Bible on lean product management/development."

4.11 avg rating — 364,837 ratings

4.15 avg rating — 2,843 ratings

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