The best 11 Scrum & Agile books

In Agile Selling, you’ll discover how to boost your productivity and learn to thrive in any kind of sales environment. The book explores the strategies of great salespeople and how they adapt to new circumstances, and offers practical advice on how you too can become more adaptive in your business.

• Anyone involved in selling products in a new industry
• Long-time salespeople who need a boost of inspiration
• Anyone struggling to sell in an ever-changing market

The Elements of Scrum (2011) explains how outmoded software development processes are holding companies back in an ever-changing market. Today’s successful teams need to be agile and flexible; and the best companies do this by adopting a methodology called scrum. This book gives you everything you need to know to start a scrum-based process in your own organization.

• Project managers
• Software developers and designers
• Anyone interested in agile organizational processes

Based on the work practices at Netflix, Powerful (2017) is a guide to building a work culture that can adapt to today’s fast-paced and ever-changing markets. It offers insights that are rooted in an unconventional way of managing people. You’ll discover eight practices of management that’ll help you create a successful work culture and business.

• Leaders and managers
• Entrepreneurs
• Anyone interested in the stupendous rise of Netflix

Flexible Working (2021) is a practical guide to organizing work outside the standard nine-to-five. This helpful handbook explores the diverse array of working arrangements possible in the contemporary world.

• Businesses looking for more agile work arrangements
• Workers wanting to see life outside the nine-to-five
• Anyone curious about the future of work

Radical Product Thinking (2021) lays out a step-by-step approach to developing game-changing products. Taking aim at the iteration-led approaches to product development that have become popular in recent years, it provides an inspiring, vision-driven alternative. 

• Product developers 
• Entrepreneurs 
• Change-makers

Working Backwards (2021) tells the story of how Amazon changed the way people live. It explores founder Jeff Bezos’ leadership philosophy, and reveals how this philosophy has informed Amazon’s most iconic products and services. 

• Executive coaches looking for fresh insights
• Entrepreneurs hoping to turbo-charge their business
• Managers wanting to boost their teams’ performance

Learning Agile (2015) is a no-nonsense guide to an often misunderstood concept – agile. The reason for that misunderstanding is simple: all too often, agile is bandied about as a one-size-fits-all solution to every conceivable organizational difficulty. Longtime agile practitioners Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene don’t see it that way. For them, agile is a great tool, but you have to know how – and when and why – to use it. And that starts with getting a grasp on agile’s underlying principles. 

• Software developers
• Team leaders 
• Project managers

The DevOps Handbook (2016) offers a roadmap on how to catapult your technology operations into a realm of world-class agility, reliability, and security. Dive deep into the heart of the DevOps philosophy, equipping you with insights to bridge gaps between development and operations, while fostering unmatched efficiency.

• Technology professionals seeking to enhance organizational efficiency
• Business leaders navigating digital transformation initiatives
• Aspiring IT managers and DevOps enthusiasts

Accelerate (2018) explores the intersection of software development and organizational performance. Drawing on rigorous research, it reveals the practices and capabilities that allow high-performing technology-driven companies to excel and achieve a competitive edge in the fast-paced digital era.

• Tech leaders seeking performance optimization
• Agile and DevOps practitioners
• Business owners looking to improve software delivery

Management 3.0 (2010) shows you how to lead modern organizations as living systems rather than machines. You'll learn practical approaches to creating environments where teams naturally thrive and adapt, drawing from successful practices at companies like Microsoft, Spotify, and ING Bank. This fresh perspective transforms complexity from an obstacle into an advantage, helping you build organizations that grow stronger through continuous adaptation.

• Leaders seeking fresh approaches to managing complex modern organizations
• Teams looking to build stronger capabilities and more effective practices
• Managers ready to move beyond traditional command-and-control approaches

Agile L&D (2024) argues that Learning and Development professionals must abandon traditional approaches and embrace agile methodologies to meet the demands of today's rapidly changing business environment. It provides a comprehensive toolkit for creating people-centered learning solutions that solve real workplace challenges through continuous experimentation and iteration. 

• L&D professionals ready to ditch outdated trainings and embrace agile solutions
• HR partners who want to integrate people strategy with rapid business changes
• Consultants looking to bring new approaches to workplace transformation challenges