Recommended Readings

The bible of Scrum is Agile Software Development with Scrum, primarily by Schwaber, with contributions from Beedle and Sutherland.

Several books and articles influenced the Scrum creators, and are worth mention as recommended readings because of their widespread or seminal influence:

• "The New New Product Development Game," Harvard Business Review, Jan 1986, by Takeuchi and Nonaka. Discusses common best practices of innovative Japanese companies.

• Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions, by DeGrace. Discusses why the waterfall is unsuitable for most software projects, and explores various iterative feedback-based practices for development.

• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity, 1995, and Emergence: From Chaos to Order, 1998, by Holland. Both discuss the dynamics and value of adaptive, self-organizing groups to solve problems.