Several month ago I started to collect a list of the Top Agile Coaching Books from various social channels like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. I received so much input from so many people so I decided to divide the book list into five different categories: Top agile books for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Developers, Leadership & Agile Coaching. In this article I want to show you the Top 15 books about Agile & Coaching recommend by the Community.
The following list is ordered based on reviews and ratings on Amazon and GoodReads. If you think that there is an important book that should be added to that list, leave a comment after the list. Please consider that some very good books that should be in that list might be located in some other categories that I mentioned above. As I do not agree 100% on the communities´ priority, I added my personal Top 5 books after the list:
Top 15 books about Agile & Coaching recommended by the community
| # | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses |
Eric Ries
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| 2 | Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High |
Kerry Patterson
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| 3 | Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum |
Peter M. Senge
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| 4 | The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization |
Peter M. Senge
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| 5 | The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering |
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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| 6 | Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life |
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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| 7 | Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers |
Dave Gray
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| 8 | The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win |
Gene Kim
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| 9 | Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban |
Henrik Kniberg
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| 10 | Kanban and Scrum – making the most of both (Enterprise Software Development) |
Henrik Kniberg
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| 11 | Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances |
J. Richard Hackman
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| 12 | Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn |
Sharon L. Bowman
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| 13 | Extreme Programming Installed |
Ron Jeffries
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| 14 | Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams |
Alistair Cockburn
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| 15 | Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly |
Bertrand Meyer
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My personal top 5 books about Agile & Coaching that I recommend
| # | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances |
J. Richard Hackman
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| 2 | Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn |
Sharon L. Bowman
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| 3 | The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization |
Peter M. Senge
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| 4 | Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life |
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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| 5 | Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives – A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises |
Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
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If you think that there is an important book that should be added to that list, leave a comment here and make that list even more useful!
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Hi Dominic
I would like to add this great book
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition by Lissa Adkins
Hi Mario! Thanks for the hint! I will add the link here: https://goo.gl/AUPHgq
Some of my favorite agile books are:
Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins (I recommend along with Dominic) – great advice for learning the soft skills of coaching
Essential Scrum by Kenneth Rubin (great primer on Scrum)
Kanban in Action by Hammarberg and Sunden
Hello! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life is my one of favorite book. I have read it full. Thanks share your top 5 books with us.