The lists below contain some of my favorite books on Agile and Leadership and some of the titles currently on my to-read backlog. I will highly appreciate any comments on my selections or recommendations of additional must read book using the comments below.

All books are linked to Amazon in both tangible and Kindle editions where possible for your convenience. And yes, I get a small referral fee, if you use the link, but that hasn’t influences my selection.

Leadership:

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni (Kindle) – My Review
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management by Johanna Rothman & Esther Derby
• Truth About Managing People by Stephen P. Robbins (Kindle)
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek (Kindle)
• Adventures of an IT Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O’Donnell (Kindle)
• It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Michael Abrashoff (Kindle)
• Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility by Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little & Kent McDonald (Kindle)
• Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies
• Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition by Lyssa Adkins (Kindle)

Learning Agile:

• Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn (Kindle)
• Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) by Alistair Cockburn (Kindle)
• Agile Software Development Ecosystems by James A. Highsmith
• Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide by Craig Larman (Kindle)
• The Software Project Management Bridge to Agility by Michele Sliger & Stacia Broderick (Kindle)
• Lean Software Development by Mary & Tom Poppendieck (Kindle)
• Managing Agile Projects by Sanjiv Augustine

Agile Practices:

• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen & Ken Schwaber
• Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg (Free online version)
• Agile Estimation and Planning by Mike Cohn (Kindle)
• Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J. Anderson (Kindle)
• User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn (Kindle)

Agile Development:

• eXtreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck (Kindle)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas (Kindle)
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble & David Farley (Kindle)
• Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World by Venkat Subramaniam & Andy Hunt
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks (Kindle)
• Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides (Kindle)
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke & Don Roberts
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin (Kindle)

Mics:

• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds (Kindle)
• The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers by Patrick Lencioni (Kindle)
• The Last Place on Earth (Scott And Amundsen) by Roland Huntford

On my reading list:

• Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders by Jurgen Appelo (Kindle)
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright (Kindle)
• Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader by Robert Goffee & Gareth Jones (Kindle)
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (Kindle)
• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo (Kindle)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins (Kindle)
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg & Arun Gandhi (Kindle)
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom Demarco & Timothy Lister (Kindle)
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (Kindle)
• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton (Kindle)
• The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution by Brian Solis (Kindle)
• First Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Muckingham & Curt Coffman
• Kanban & Scrum – Making the Most of Both by Henrik Kniberg & Mattias Skarin (Free online version)