The Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Mike Cohn Signature) Books and eBooks

The Addison-Wesley Signature Series provides readers with practical and authoritative information on the latest trends in modern technology for computer professionals. The series is based on one simple premise: great books come from great authors. Books in the Mike Cohn Signature series are personally chosen by Cohn, a founder of the Agile Alliance and highly regarded Agile expert and author. Mike's signature ensures that he has worked closely with authors to define topic coverage, book scope, critical content, and overall uniqueness. The expert signatures also symbolize a promise to our readers: you are reading a future classic.

Improving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More EfficientImproving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More Efficient

Marc Löffler combines practical guidance, proven practices, and innovative approaches for maximizing the value of retrospectives for your team—and your entire organization. You can apply his powerful techniques in any project, agile or otherwise. These techniques offer exceptional value wherever continuous improvement is needed: from “lessons-learned” workshops in traditional project management to enterprise-wide change management.

Great ScrumMaster, The: #ScrumMasterWayGreat ScrumMaster, The: #ScrumMasterWay

Zuzana Šochová has created your complete guide to becoming an exceptionally effective ScrumMaster and using Scrum to dramatically improve team and organizational performance. Easy to digest and highly visual, you can read it in a weekend…and use it for an entire career.

Developer Testing: Building Quality into SoftwareDeveloper Testing: Building Quality into Software

Leading test expert and mentor Alexander Tarlinder presents concise, focused guidance for making new and legacy code far more testable. Learn how to design for testability and utilize techniques like refactoring, dependency breaking, unit testing, data-driven testing, and test-driven development to achieve the highest possible confidence in your software.

Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSSLarge-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

Craig Larman and Bas Vodde distill over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription.

Scrum Field Guide, The: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, 2nd EditionScrum Field Guide, The: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, 2nd Edition

This guide will give you the skills and confidence needed to deploy Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and satisfied customers. Drawing on years of hands-on experience helping companies succeed, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Mitch Lacey helps you overcome the major challenges of Scrum adoption and the deeper issues that emerge later.

Agile Testing Collection, TheAgile Testing Collection, The

A Comprehensive Collection of Agile Testing Best Practices Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin haven’t just pioneered agile testing, they have also written two of the field’s most valuable guidebooks. Now, you can get both guides in one indispensable eBook collection.

More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole TeamMore Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now they reflect on all they’ve learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked to learn more about.

Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools, & TipsScrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips

Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps you translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges your formal training never warned you about. Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments, Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes, actions, and outcomes.

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile ProcessEssential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively. Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels.

Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile LeadersManagement 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders

Leading Agile manager Jurgen Appelo introduces a realistic approach to leading, managing, and growing your Agile team or organization. Writing for current managers and developers moving into management, Appelo shares insights that are grounded in modern complex systems theory, reflecting the intense complexity of modern software development.

Agile Game Development with ScrumAgile Game Development with Scrum

Long-time game developer Clinton Keith shows exactly how to successfully apply these methods to the unique challenges of game development. Learn to form successful agile teams that incorporate programmers, producers, artists, testers, and designers—and promote effective collaboration within and beyond those teams, throughout the entire process.

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in TransitionCoaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition

Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring.

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers LoveAgile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love

Leading Scrum consultant Roman Pichler uses real-world examples to demonstrate how product owners can create successful products with Scrum. He describes a broad range of agile product management practices, including making agile product discovery work, taking advantage of emergent requirements, creating the minimal marketable product, leveraging early customer feedback, and working closely with the development team.

Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using ScrumSucceeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum

Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work.

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile TeamsAgile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help.