 | Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn
Buy new: $35.30 / Used from: $22.00 This is hands-down one of the most useful books to read when adopting agile.
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 | Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin
Buy new: $41.72 / Used from: $39.91 There is also a Java version of this book. Both are excellent. If I were recommending two books on agile, this would be one of them.
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 | Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development) by Ken Schwaber
Buy new: $29.15 / Used from: $21.59 This book explains Scrum inside out.
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 | Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) by Ken Schwaber
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $18.95 This book has a nice collection of case studies, but I really like Appendix A, which codifies the Scrum rules.
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 | Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck
Buy new: $46.45 / Used from: $20.00 Lean thinking is a core concept in optimizing the throughput of your teams.
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 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.97 There is only one goal. There is only one bottleneck in attaining more of the goal. This busines novel will help you question your fundamentals.
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 | Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.00 This book does for project management what Goldratt's "The Goal" did for business overall. Is is a fictional story, so it is fun to read, but it is full of useful, applicable ideas.
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 | Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.74 In my opinion, retrospectives are the "secret sauce" of agile. This book provides a coherent structure for executing retrospectives and a toolbox full of activities to squeeze the most out of each.
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 | Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises by Dean Leffingwell
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $29.00 This book is a bit heavy on the UP for my taste, but that's understandable given Leffingwell's past. Regardless, it has practical guidance for scaling up agility for larger enterprises, and it is well worth the read.
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 | The Enterprise and Scrum by Ken Schwaber
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $4.14 I waffle between this book and Leffingwell's in terms of relevance.
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 | Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Programmers) by Venkat Subramaniam
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.24 I love the pragmatic bookshelf. Buy all of their books.
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 | Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process by Scott Ambler
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $15.88 A great, pragmatic overview of modeling tools and when to use them.
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 | Testing Extreme Programming by Lisa Crispin
Buy new: $27.09 / Used from: $5.71 |
 | Managing Agile Projects by Sanjiv Augustine
Buy new: $38.70 / Used from: $20.50 |
 | Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition by Andy Hunt
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $27.85 This is a great book on unit testing. There is at least a Java version as well. I wish it focused more on TDD, but I like it better than the TDD-focused books in many ways.
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 | xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros
Buy new: $46.79 / Used from: $42.77 I actually don't own this one, but it is near the top of my to-buy list. I've thumbed through it over at nerd books, and it has some good content.
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 | Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated by James P. Womack
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $8.85 the book to read when trying to understand lean.
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