One of the searches that stumbled across my blog was the “Agile Coaching Reading List”. Running the same query returned a huge mish mash of lots of different things so I thought I’d put together my list of essential reads. Of course, simply reading the books won’t mean that you’re an expert (and I suggest working with another coach to develop that) though it’ll definitely help in providing context, advice or skills that you need to practice.

Methodologies and principles

• Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck.
• Agile Project Management with SCRUM by Ken Schwaber.
• Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck

Additional context

• Slack by Tom De Marco.

Teamwork

• Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka

Continuous improvement

• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

Requirements and planning

• User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn.
• Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

Development practices

• Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck.
• Pair Programming Illuminated by Laurie Williams.