| Title | Author | Subject | Audience | Comments | Readability | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders" | David Marquet | Transformation; Leadership | Management | Medium | Yes | |
| "Accelerate - Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World" | John Kotter | Transformation; Change | Management | Medium | Yes | |
| "The Rollout: A Novel about Leadership and Building a Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFe" | Alex Yakyma | Transformation | Management | High | Yes | |
| "Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban" | Andrew Stellman; Jennifer Greene | BasicAgile | ScrumMaster | High | ||
| "Rolling Rocks Downhill: The Agile Business Novel" | Clarks Ching | BasicAgile | Management | High | Yes | |
| "Scrum Guide" | Ken Schwaber; Jeff Sutherland | BasicAgile | ScrumMaster | Medium | Yes | |
| "This is Lean - Resolving the Efficiency Paradox" | Niklas Modig | BasicLean | Management | High | Yes | |
| "Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential" | Bjarte Bogsnes | Finance | Management | Medium | Yes | |
| "Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age" | Roman Pichler | Planning | ProductOwner | Medium | ||
| "Management 3.0" | Jurgen Appelo | Management | Management | Medium | Yes | |
| "Conflict Resolution" | Daniel Dana | TeamPerformance | ScrumMaster | Medium | ||
| "Superforecasting - The Art and Science of Prediction" | Philip E. Tetlock; Dan Gardner | Planning | ProductOwner; Management | Easy | ||
| "Designing Organizations - Strategy, Structure, and Process at the Business Unit and Enterprise Levels" | Jay Galbraith | Transformation; Organization | Management | Medium | ||
| "Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing" | Gojko Adzic | Quality; Testing | Team | Medium | Yes | |
| "Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects" | Johanna Rothman | Portfolio | ProductOwner; Management | Easy | Yes | |
| "Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World" | Stanley McChrystal | Organization; Culture | Management | Medium | Yes | |
| "Lean Product and Process Development" | Allen Ward | Lean; Planning | ProductOwner; Management | Excellent book - recommended - on the application of lean ideas to product development process | Medium | Yes |
| "Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide" | IIBA | Planning | ProductOwner | Hard | ||
| "Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives" | Luis Conclaves; Ben Linders | Retrospectives | ScrumMaster | Medium | ||
| "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" | Patrick Lencioni | Team; Culture | ScrumMaster; Management | Easy | Yes | |
| "Complexity - A Very Short Introduction" | John Holland | Complexity | ScrumMaster; Management | One of the basis of Scrum is complex systems. This book gives a pretty good introduction to the understanding of complex systems in general. Not directly useful perhaps, but helps provide a framework for thinking. | Hard | |
| “The Lean Machine- How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development” | Dantar P. Oosterwal | Transformation; Change | Management | Brilliant book, just brilliant, if you are trying to understand how to implement “lean” type thinking approach to the problem of new product development. | Medium | Yes |
| "Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability" | Daniel S. Vacant | Planning; Metrics | ScrumMaster; Management | There are two uses of this book 1) to understand a small set of metrics which, if tracked correctly, will help you improve your process and 2) to understand how to interpret scatterplots, cumulative flow diagrams and so on, what to look for and how to address. Book is a little “anti-Scrum” (or rather anti point based estimating) but still a valuable addition to understanding your delivery system. | Medium | |
| "Scaling Lean and Agile Development: Thinking and Organization Tools" | Craig Larmon; Bas Vodde | Transformation | Management | This books looks at the process of scaling more from the viewpoint of the original Scrum thinking, that of complexity science. It doesn't specify a lot of practices, by rather suggest experiments with sections labelled “try”. | Hard | |
| "User Story Mapping" | Jeff Patton | Planning | ProductOwner | Excellent book on the process of working requirements. Tool offers not only a way to define the stories in the first place, but also how to put together a roadmap, use the story map as a way of showing progress and maintaining context. | Easy | Yes |
| “Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery" | Scott Ambler; Mark Lines | Transformation | Management | Another approach to adaptation. Like the focus on risk, although positioning as “something Scrum doesn't worry about” I think is incorrect - we did after all. | Medium | |
| "Secrets of Consulting" | Gerry Weinberg | Consulting | Consultant | Useful for a new consulting business like me. | Medium | |
| “Predicting the Unpredictable” | Johanna Rothman | Planning | ProductOwner | Great summary of estimation and planning approaches | Medium | Yes |
| “Scrum for the Rest of Us” | Brian Rabon: Scrum 101 | BasicAgile | ScrumMaster | Medium |