 | Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide by Craig Larman
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $29.99 Larman's thoroughly researched book will give you a deep understanding about why plan-driven waterfall projects are failing and why agile methods are the best choice to develop software in the 21st century.
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 | Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck
Buy new: $47.14 / Used from: $32.53 Next you need to understand how to eliminate waste from your development process and how to increase learning. Because learning is essential to stay on top in turbulent times.
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 | Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products by Jim Highsmith
Buy new: $35.47 / Used from: $14.00 Highsmith's book gives a good general overview of how development projects (software and systems) are managed using agile techniques. This is a good start for project managers.
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 | Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) by Alistair Cockburn
Buy new: $35.47 / Used from: $22.00 A thourough analysis on the human side of software development. Cockburn shows you why collaboration is critical in software development and exlains why it is one of the core principles and values in agile software development.
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 | Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) by Ken Schwaber
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $25.00 Scrum is a lightweigth project management framework and is by far the most popular of all agile frameworks. Using Scrum you can turn around troubled software projects in record time. Scrum embraces principles from Lean Manufacturing and complex adaptive systems to make software development successful again.
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 | Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn
Buy new: $35.96 / Used from: $29.95 This book will show you how to abandon plan-driven project management and how to start operating on the edge of chaos without actually slipping into chaos. Cohn's book is the classic on planning and estimating work in an agile environment.
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 | User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn
Buy new: $35.96 / Used from: $29.71 Defining requirements in the early stages of the development process is one of the biggest wastes in software development. Get rid of your requirements tomes and start using user stories instead.
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 | Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.21 The best agile teams improve continuously. They learn from their mistakes and think about what can be done better in the next iteration. This book is a gem and it contains evertything you need to lead or facilitate effective retrospectives.
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 | The Enterprise and Scrum by Ken Schwaber
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $4.25 In this book Ken Schwaber is exploring how Scrum can be used trhoughout an entire organization. If you've successfully introduced Scrum in a couple of pilot projects, this is the next step to take.
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 | Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success by Amr Elssamadisy
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $30.36 Every organization is different and therefore there is no one size fits all approach for agile transformation. Elssamadisy's book contains many useful adoption patterns which allow you to create a custom-made transformation approach for your organization.
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