Methodology

Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
by Mike Cohn
Average Customer Review: based on 17 reviews.
Customer Review: I have read Mikes other books, User Stories Applied and Agile estimating and planning, both of which really help on the more technical sides of Agile and to some extent the people. This book however deals with the most important part of any Agile project or Adoption the people and how it impacts on them. I can't think how many times...

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
by Mike Cohn
Average Customer Review: based on 45 reviews.
Customer Review: This book made me better after the first chapter, maybe even after the introduction. I come from a traditional background of "The system shall..." approach to system requirements and incorporated them into a more agile approach. I have designed and completed successful projects that included hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I...

Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
Average Customer Review: based on 23 reviews.
Customer Review: I picked up this book after reading a different Rails book. The other book was okay, but left me with a lot of questions. That is not the case with this book. The first section of the book is real basic while you build an e-commerce application. The second half of the book shines. It goes into great detail about the framework, and h...

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts
Average Customer Review: based on 140 reviews.
Customer Review: I was referred to this book from a colleague after a quick discussion on "Replace temp with Query" in our projects code base. I thought I knew it all as a software developer, but reading this book, I soon came to realize that as a software developer I was leaving a legacy of code that was not at the standard it should be. This book...

Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development)
by Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
Average Customer Review: based on 47 reviews.
Customer Review: I loved the book because it explains SCRUM in its original form. When I read my first SCRUM book, was dificult to understand it outside XP pratices, but in this book i learned it essences. Focus on people, communication, collaboration, team. I recommend.

Test Driven Development: By Example
by Kent Beck
Average Customer Review: based on 33 reviews.
Customer Review: Excellent book, well paced and informative. You should really go through the examples as you read those sections (part 2), even if they feel a little obvious, because if you are new to TDD you will pick up some insights. I particularly liked the Patterns section (Part 3), as it introduced some new patterns as well as talked about fa...

The Art of Agile Development
by James Shore, Chromatic
Average Customer Review: based on 35 reviews.
Customer Review: If you are starting to agile methodologies but don't know where to start from this is it. It takes you from what is the motivation behind agile to how to practically live with it. And in the end how to tune it to suit your extreme needs. The book is about extreme programming mostly but does not limit its scope to there. Other houses...

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
by Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: February 2010

Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide
by Craig Larman
Average Customer Review: based on 48 reviews.
Customer Review: This book is organized for easy self-directed exploration, with extensive margin references to sections that expand on topics mentioned. It includes an excellent section on the historical foundations of our current software development practices that leads to building a solid business case for agile methods. About half of the text i...

Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
by Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
Average Customer Review: based on 15 reviews.
Customer Review: I found this book a bit hard to read - I don't know if it is because it was written by two authors, or because I didn't know about Lean Thinking. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend it for anyone who wants to know why Scrum works and how to use it. It relates Scrum to Lean Thinking all over the book (this came as a surprise for me), ...