By Geoff Watts

Written by the highly acclaimed Scrum Coach, “Geoff Watts”, this book is aimed to making you a proficient Scrum Master.
This book describes how becoming a true servant-leader makes you a better Scrum Master. Having over ten years of practical experience, Geoff emphasizes on how applying the principles of servant leadership makes you a better Scrum Master. Giving practical examples, he explains how becoming a servant leader enhances the performance of the teams, increases their collaboration and significance of frequent retrospectives.

By Paul Vii

A book to learn about Sprints Planning and Execution. “Paul Vii” is a certified Scrum Master who presents a complete overview of estimating and planning in agile teams. He describes it in simple text which is understandable to individuals from the beginner to an expert level. The book is of only 90 pages.

By Jez Humble and David Farley

Learn about release planning and how to excel with your deployment process. Winner of the Jolt Excellence Award in 2011 this book is an effective guide for deploying release painlessly. It walks you through the principles and practices of delivering software incrementally with high quality and reliability. This book caters to all the members of a software organization. From automating, building, testing, integrating and deployment practices to improving collaboration amongst the individuals and risk management. This book covers and addresses to all the people in a software company.

By Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

This book describes the tools and the techniques to solve any problem that comes during software development. These problems are brought forward in retrospective sessions. It also describes the necessity of having frequent retrospectives in increments and iterations rather than at the end of the project.

Written by “Esther Derby” and “Diana Larsen”, who are both undoubtedly exceptional in their respective fields. In this book they share their experiences of helping software companies reach their maximum potential.

By Mario E. Moreira

The perfect guide to becoming Agile. It delves into adapting the mindset and focuses on implementing Agile practices from the stage of inception of the idea till delivering continuous value to the customer.

By Rebecca Baker

The title of the book says it all. Having more than 20 years of experience in User Interaction, “Rebecca Baker” interestingly describes the process of story writing. This helps in communicating business value, finding problems and speeding delivery which can be applied to all the levels of the Software Development Lifecycle.

By Mike Cohn

This book centers on developing user stories which clearly define the functionality of the product from end user perspective.

It explains the complete lifecycle of user stories including user roles identification, brainstorming user stories with examples, estimating these stories, process of organizing and prioritizing the user stories so that they can be used for planning, development, management and testing.

By Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin

The authors “Janet Gregory” and “Lisa Crispin” present an insightful and intuitive approach towards agile testing.

This book covers modern agile testing activities for the enterprise. These testing activities include automated tests, identifying and managing risks, addressing new challenges that come and welcoming new testers in a way that they are not intimidated. It also describes ways of overcoming the problems that testers have to face.

By Mike Cohn

This book as has been regarded as the perfect guide for agile planning and estimations. The approaches and the reason to apply those agile approaches are clearly and elaborately written. It presents you with real life examples in the software industry, letting the readers to learn from their mistakes.