Recommended Lean and Agile reading

This is a list of some of the books I have read and highly recommend. I have grouped them loosely by category but they are generally in no particular order. Read the Amazon reviews to figure out where to start… they’re all great books!

Lean and Kanban – Basic Reading

The Toyota Way (Liker)

The Toyota Way

Lean Software Development (Poppendieck)

Lean Software Development

Implementing Lean Software Development (Poppendieck)

Implementing Lean Software Development

Lean Thinking (Womack & Jones)

Lean Thinking

The Toyota Production System (Ohno)

The Toyota Production System

Lean and Kanban – further reading

Creating a Lean Culture (Mann)

Creating a Lean Culture

Managing the Design Factory (Reinertsen)

Managing the Design Factory

Freedom from Command and Control (Seddon)

Freedom from Command and Control

The New Economics (Deming)

The New Economics

Learning to See (Rother & Shook)

Learning to See

Scrum and Agile – Basic Reading

Agile Project Management with Scrum (Schwaber)

Agile Project Management with Scrum

Agile Estimating and Planning (Cohn)

Agile Estimating and Planning

Agile Software Development, 2nd edition (Cockburn)

Agile Software Development: The cooperative game

Scrum and XP from the trenches (Kniberg)

Note: this is a free e-book that you can download from InfoQ (registration required)

Scrum and XP from the trenches

User Stories Applied (Cohn)

User Stories Applied

Extreme Programming Explained, 2nd edition (Beck)

Extreme Programming Explained

Scrum and Agile – further reading and topic-specific reading

Agile Retrospectives (Derby & Larsen)

Agile Retrospectives

Fearless Change (Manns & Rising)

Fearless Change

Agile Coaching (Davies & Sedley)

Agile Coaching

Agile Testing (Crispin & Gregory)

Note: I have not yet fully read this book, but I own it, have browsed and read selected parts, and already recommend it.

Agile Testing

Must Read Classics

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Goal (Goldratt)

The Goal

The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks)

The Mythical Man Month

Peopleware (DeMarco & Lister)

Peopleware

Lesser known software books I highly recommend

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Glass)

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

The Laws of Software Process (Armour)

The Laws of Software Process