Product Development is an art. Below is a list of and reading material we have found that helps us understand that art. It is not a sustitute for the artist. Great leadership is still requried however, we have found insights from the following material and want to share.

While it is clear that people with a persistent positive focus make better leaders, it is not clear that they are better at building products. Being a good citizen and wanting good things is not always enough to make those good things happen. Many people have great visions. Less common are the hard skills to lead a product development effort toward that vision. Our focus has centered on Scrum but, this list is much broader and is more about putting together well formed teams with a purpose.

For those looking for more of a list of terms we invite you to read our blog. 

Our reading list is for people actively involved in developing products and trying to transition to a more effective state. The material in this list will help people in the following roles: product owner, Scrum Master, product champion, analyst, business analyst, the team, developer, architect, project manager, process mentor, graphic designer, and anyone who wants to improve using agile development methods.

Scrum Book Reading List

To help you understand why we chose each book, we have included a "One Big Like" (OBL) under each book.

We will  add other books, but the books above represent our short list for product development. There are many more reasons why we liked these books and narrowing it down to "One Big Like" was often hard. There were also some things we did not like in each book; however, page for page we found these books above average.  You can find much of our discussion about these in our blog.