Books for Getting Started With Scrum

7 Comments

1. Unknown says:

   10-07-2008 at 13:06

   I would recommend “The Art of Agile Development” by James Shore and Shane Warden.
   You can see the interview with Shane on InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/The-Art-of-Agile-Development-James-Shore

   Another one is “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” by Henrik Kniberg. See http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/

   These two proved to be usefull to me.

2. Anonymous says:

   15-07-2008 at 20:52

   Not really about scrum, but for me a must read about making change happen:

   “Fearless Change” by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising.

3. Peter says:

   15-07-2008 at 21:07

   Hi Jonas & Gerhard,

   Thanks for the tips. Scrum and XP is great. It was probably the third Scrum book I read. I didn’t list it (blush) because when I read it, it wasn’t really a book, just a big PDF ;-). But you’re right, it goes on the main page.

   I heard about Fearless Change at the German Scrum gathering last Friday. It sounds really interesting and I plan to put it on my holiday reading list.

   Cheers,
   Peter

4. Peter says:

   13-03-2009 at 14:06

   I really like the Shore & Warden book. It's a good basis for building up the engineering skills in the team. The concept of "Études" is really useful.

   There are now a few books in German:

   Scrum – Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen by Roman Pichler

   and

   Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln by Boris Gloger

   Ken Schwaber’s Agile Project Management with Scrum is also available in German.

   Cheers,

   Peter

5. Anonymous says:

   21-03-2009 at 19:04

   I would add these two:

   (a) Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines: http://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-Marines/dp/0066619793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237652286&sr=1-1

   What's interesting about this one – is how much the culture of Scrum is described within.

   (b) Slack by Tom Demarco is a must: http://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficiency/dp/0767907698/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237652397&sr=1-1

   The first two pages of the book will bring to light a great concept

6. Anonymous says:

   10-01-2012 at 00:38

   Thanks for the list. A good recent book is

   The Elements of Scrum

7. Peter says:

   10-01-2012 at 00:49

   I was not comfortable with this last comment. In general, I'm OK with anonymous comments, but this one gave no indication who or why the book was being recommended — a bit close to spam for my comfort.

   Only because the authors were part of the Bay Area Agile community did I decide to publish this comment.

   When recommending a book (and I am really glad for good recommendations!), please do not recommend anonymously. Please do not recommend your own books or include partner IDs in your links.

   Thanks!