On Twitter I asked my followers “Which books do you think are the best/most up-to-date in terms of Agile/Lean thinking?”
I received 24 recommendations for 18 books.
There were 5 books that were mentioned by people twice. The “winners” are:
- Toyota Kata - Mike Rother (2009)
- Principles of Product Development Flow - Donald Reinertsen (2009)
- Succeeding with Agile - Mike Cohn (2009)
- The Lean Startup - Eric Ries (2011)
- Management 3.0 - some dude called Jürgen Apello (2011)
And then there were some other great books mentioned once:
- Managing to Learn - John Shook (2008)
- Understanding A3 Thinking - Durward K. Sobek, Art Smalley (2008)
- Scaling Lean & Agile Development - Craig Larman, Bas Vodde (2008)
- The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande (2009)
- Kanban - David Anderson (2010)
- Coaching Agile Teams - Lyssa Adkins (2010)
- De Kracht van Scrum (Dutch) - Rini van Solingen, Eelco Rustenburg (2010)
- Radical Management - Stephen Denning (2010)
- Personal Kanban - Jim Benson (2011)
- Adapt - Tim Harford (2011)
And some books that are actually not very recent at all:
- Learning to See - Mike Rother, John Shook (1999)
- Extreme Programming Explained - Kent Beck (2004)
- A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink (2006)
Finally, my own additions to this interesting list:
- Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, David Farley (2010)
- Specification by Example - Gojko Adzic (2011)
- The Agile Samurai – Jonathan Rasmusson (2011)
But feel free to reply to this blog post and add some more! :-)
For more suggestions, see the Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2011)
