Great Business and Agile Books for Startups January 26, 2011
Posted by Brian Link in agile, startups.trackback
I keep running into great sources of information. List of books I should read that I rarely find time for. I’ll post a few great lists I’ve found. I’ve been wanting to build myself a list of must-reads that I hope you’ll find helpful too.
Here’s a list of Agile related books that I recommend. Please add more in the comments – I’m interested in finding new books too!
- Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
– Mike Cohn
- Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
– Mary and Tom Poppendieck
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition)
– Kent Beck
- The Art of Agile Development
– James Shore
- Agile Web Development with Rails
– Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
- Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
– Ken Schwaber
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
– Mike Cohn
- Agile Estimating and Planning
– Mike Cohn
- Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development)
– Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
- Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (2nd Edition)
– Jim Highsmith
Must-read books for startups (and general business books) great list from Quora:
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Steven Gary Blank
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany – Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers – Yves Pigneur and Alex Osterwalder
- Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
- Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur – Pamela Slim
- My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley – Ben Casnocha
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
- Crossing the Chasm – Geoff Moore
- The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
- Getting to Plan B – Randy Komisar & John Mullins
- The Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki
- Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation – Andrew Metrick
- Viral Loop – Adam L. Penenberg
- The Monk and the Riddle – Randy Komisar
- The PayPal Wars – Eric M. Jackson
- The Facebook Effect – David Kirkpatrick
- Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good – Sarah Lacyhttp://amzn.to/gd0sJ4
- Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath http://amzn.to/eo6ndK
- Landing Page Optimization Tim Ash http://amzn.to/gYpVPY
- Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity Avinash Kaushik http://amzn.to/etvEZe
- The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene http://amzn.to/h5oiYa
- The Non-Designer’s Design Book – Robin Williams http://amzn.to/hXtbyL
- Getting Real – Jason Fried, David Hansson, Matthew Lindermanhttp://amzn.to/gdY3VX
- Dreaming in Code – Scot Rosenberg http://amzn.to/dX5MSq
- Do More Faster – David Cohen, Brad Feld http://amzn.to/fwdbH5
- RockStar Business – Adriaan Pienaar http://amzn.to/dKipra
- Crush It – Gary Vaynerchuk http://amzn.to/fz2e2b
- Fascinate – Sally Hogshead http://amzn.to/i9wgEY
- The Theory of Fun – Raph Koster http://amzn.to/dEt2n1
- Lincoln on Leadership – Donald Phillips http://amzn.to/fmLeC9
- The Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz http://amzn.to/gwpAkd
- How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer http://amzn.to/gRYTUr
- Courage: The Backbone of Leadership – Gus Lee http://amzn.to/gzEUVV
- The E-Myth Revisted – Michael Gerber http://amzn.to/glZPcE
- Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug http://amzn.to/eiKUIC
- The Mythical Man Month – Fred Brooks http://amzn.to/hhKTR0
- Difficult Conversations: How to discuss what matters most – Doug Stone et al. http://amzn.to/f9Xkeg
- Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy – Carl Shapiro http://amzn.to/hn4Wbj
- Only the Paranoid Survive – Andrew Grove http://amzn.to/ev5Z6d
- Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh http://amzn.to/dJNO2X
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure – Jerry Kaplan http://amzn.to/fTnqHe
- The Nudist On The Late Shift – Po Bronson http://amzn.to/eCtiAV
- The Microsoft Way – Randall Stross http://amzn.to/ekJ8P3
- Inside Intel – Tim Jackson http://amzn.to/fhVS0w
- Accidental Empires – Robert X. Cringely http://amzn.to/gf0hTa
- Wisdom Of Crowds – James Surowiecki http://amzn.to/ekOH0A
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell http://amzn.to/eIM0Cx
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation – Steven Johnson http://amzn.to/fVFgdi
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Coveyhttp://amzn.to/e3Z1Yp
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant – W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgnehttp://amzn.to/dV0Upi
- The Deviant’s Advantage – Ryan Matthews, Watts Wackerhttp://amzn.to/dMlpko
- Good to Great by Jim Collins http://amzn.to/e5oALJ
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pinkhttp://amzn.to/hnmyz
- Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson et al. http://amzn.to/hhQ41Y
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol Dweckhttp://amzn.to/eygzLp
- Influencer: The Power to Change Anything – Kerry Pattersonhttp://amzn.to/dYpyAM
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace – Gordon MacKenzie http://amzn.to/fH5AYj
- Hope for the Flowers – Trina Paulus http://amzn.to/icpQHb
- Finding fertile ground – Dr. Scott A. Shane http://amzn.to/guIkjN
- Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky http://amzn.to/dUSmUk
- Rework – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson http://amzn.to/gZI8wW
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