A few month ago I started to collect a list of the Top Agile Books for Scrum Masters from various social channels. I received so much feedback on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook so that I decided to divide the books into five different categories: Top agile books for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Developers, Leadership & Agile Coaching. In this blog post I want to show you the Top 20 Agile Books for Product Owners recommend by the community.
The following list is ordered based on reviews and ratings on Amazon and GoodReads. If you think that there is an important book that should be added to that list, leave a comment after the list. As I do not agree 100% on the communities´ priority, I added my personal Top 5 books after the list:
Top 20 agile books for product owners recommended by the community
| # | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses |
Eric Ries
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| 2 | Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love |
Marty Cagan
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| 3 | User Stories Applied |
Mike Cohn
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| 4 | Agile Estimating and Planning |
Mike Cohn
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| 5 | Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love (Addison-Wesley Signature) |
Roman Pichler
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| 6 | The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development |
Donald G. Reinertsen
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| 7 | Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology |
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
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| 8 | The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year (Agile Software Development Series) |
Mitch Lacey
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| 9 | Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide |
Craig Larman
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| 10 | Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, And Leave Competitors In the Dust |
Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland
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| 11 | Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products |
Jim Highsmith
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| 12 | Agile Game Development with Scrum |
Clinton Keith
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| 13 | The ShipIt Journal Five Pack |
Seth Godin
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| 14 | Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories |
Gojko Adzic (Author), David Evans
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| 15 | User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product |
Jeff Patton and Peter Economy
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| 16 | Agile Product Owner Secrets: Valuable Proven Results for Agile Management Review |
Michael Nir
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| 17 | Scrum Product Ownership: Balancing Value from the Inside Out |
Robert Galen
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| 18 | The Business Value of Agile Software Methods: Maximizing Roi With Just-in-time Processes and Documentation |
David F. Rico
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| 19 | No Estimates |
Vasco Duarte
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| 20 | The new new product development game |
Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
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My personal Top 5 books for Product Owners that I recommend
| # | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses |
Eric Ries
|
| 2 | Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love |
Marty Cagan
|
| 3 | Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products |
Jim Highsmith
|
| 4 | No Estimates |
Vasco Duarte
|
| 5 | User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product |
Jeff Patton and Peter Economy
|
If you think that there is an important book that should be added to that list, leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you!
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(18 votes, average: 4.89 out of 5)
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Thanks for the list, Dominic! I really liked The Lean Startup and 50 quick ideas. I would like to add another title to the list: Treasure Roadmap. The book offers a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development that are revolutionizing how new ideas are created, refined, and brought to market.
Hi Momčilo, thanks for your book recommendation. This is what we all need here!