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Agile thought leader and author Mike Cohn recommends three books for learning more about Agile projects and teams.

 
Mike Cohn, who cofounded the Agile Alliance, Agile Project Leadership Network and Scrum Alliance, heads up Mountain Goat Software, which provides training and consulting on Scrum and Agile to help companies build high-performance development organizations. Cohn has authored two of the Agile movement’s most respected books, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development and Agile Estimating and Planning. His latest book is Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum (Addison-Wesley; 2010).
 
Here, Cohn recommends three books for learning more about Agile projects and teams:
 
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
It is impossible to say enough good things about this book. I remember the day in 1989 when my CEO told me, “After reading Peopleware this weekend, I am going to completely change our development group.” She did, and the group excelled because of it. This book is full of advice on helping teams achieve their fullest potential.
 
Succeeding with Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management
by Adele Goldberg and Kenneth S. Rubin
This book precedes the agile movement but still contains some of the best advice on…

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