A collegue of mine asked me yesterday, "As a CIO, what books should I read to get up to speed on Scrum?" Here are my recommendations:
What are your suggestions for engineering practice books?
- Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber. The Basics, so start here.
- Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn - How to plan the project
- User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn - how to gather requirements and size the project
- Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck -- 7 principles to guide you from Concept to Cash
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck -- 22 Tools from Seeing Waste to Contracting alternatives to get you from Concept to Cash.
What are your suggestions for engineering practice books?
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You can see the interview with Shane on InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/The-Art-of-Agile-Development-James-Shore
Another one is "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" by Henrik Kniberg. See http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/
These two proved to be usefull to me.
"Fearless Change" by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising.
Thanks for the tips. Scrum and XP is great. It was probably the third Scrum book I read. I didn't list it (blush) because when I read it, it wasn't really a book, just a big PDF ;-). But you're right, it goes on the main page.
I heard about Fearless Change at the German Scrum gathering last Friday. It sounds really interesting and I plan to put it on my holiday reading list.
Cheers,
Peter
There are now a few books in German:
Scrum - Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen by Roman Pichler
and
Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln by Boris Gloger
Ken Schwaber's Agile Project Management with Scrum is also available in German.
Cheers,
Peter
(a) Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines: http://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-Marines/dp/0066619793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237652286&sr=1-1
What's interesting about this one - is how much the culture of Scrum is described within.
(b) Slack by Tom Demarco is a must: http://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficiency/dp/0767907698/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237652397&sr=1-1
The first two pages of the book will bring to light a great concept
The Elements of Scrum
Only because the authors were part of the Bay Area Agile community did I decide to publish this comment.
When recommending a book (and I am really glad for good recommendations!), please do not recommend anonymously. Please do not recommend your own books or include partner IDs in your links.
Thanks!