Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever

Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever

June 11, 2008 by JurgenAppelo

I
recently created a Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever . I created that list using four
different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards. The nice thing about such a big list is that it enables you to extract all kinds of mini-lists out of it.

Like, for example, the Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever ...

1: Robert C. Martin

Agile Software
Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices

2: Martin Fowler

Refactoring:
Improving the Design of Existing Code

3: Mike Cohn

Agile Estimating
and Planning

4: Mike Cohn

User Stories
Applied: For Agile Software Development

5: Andrew Hunt , David Thomas

The Pragmatic
Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

6: Alistair Cockburn

Agile Software
Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition)

7: Craig Larman

Agile and
Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide

8: Kent Beck

Extreme
Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition)

9: Jim Highsmith

Agile Project
Management: Creating Innovative Products

10: Paul Duvall, etc.

Continuous
Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk

11: Mary Poppendieck , Tom Poppendieck

Lean Software
Development: An Agile Toolkit

12: Ken Schwaber

Agile Project
Management with Scrum

13: Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle

Agile Software
Development with Scrum

14: Alistair Cockburn

Crystal
Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams

15: Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt

Practices
of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World

16: Kent Beck

Test Driven
Development: By Example

17: Johanna Rothman

Manage
It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

18: James Shore , Shane Warden

The Art
of Agile Development

19: Ron Jeffries, etc.

Extreme
Programming Installed

20: Esther Derby, etc.

Agile Retrospectives:
Making Good Teams Great

I think it's good to see that so many agile publications have made it onto the big list of software engineering books. Far more than any publications with "traditional" views (if there ever was such a thing).

So, if you were looking for some more interesting books on agile software development, you can stop looking for a while. These twenty are the crème de la crème!