25 Lean or Agile Authors to follow on Twitter

I have been asked by various people lately who I follow on Twitter, as well as what books to read to learn more about lean and agile digital product development. Here’s a list of authors that I respect and try to read as much of as possible. Below are some of their books and twitter accounts. Now you can read and follow as well. Would love to hear about your favorites!

1. Alistair Cockburn

Books: Crystal Clear: A Human Powered Methodology for Small Teams, Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, & Writing Effective Use Cases

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2. Alistair Croll

Books: Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster, & Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors

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3. Allen Holub

Book: Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code

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4. Ash Maurya

Books: Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works, Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth,

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5. Barry O’Reilly

Books: Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

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6. Benjamin Yokovitz

Book: Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

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7. Donald Reinertsen

Books: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, Managing the Design Factory, Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition

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8. Eric Ries

Books: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth

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9. Gene Kim

Books: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, The DevOps Handbook:: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

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10. Jake Knapp

Books: Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

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11. Jeff Gothelf

Books: Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams, Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously, Lean Vs. Agile Vs. Design Thinking: What you really need to know to build high-performing digital product teams

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12. Jeff Patton

Book: User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

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13. Jeff Sutherland

Books: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, The Power of Scrum, Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust

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14. Jez Humble

Books: Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, The DevOps Handbook:: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations, Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

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15. Joanne Molesky

Book: Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

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16. Josh Seiden

Books: Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams, Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously

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17. Ken Schwaber

Books: Agile Software Development with Scrum, Agile Project Management with Scrum (Developer Best Practices), Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust

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18. Kent Beck

Books: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (XP Series), Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Implementation Patterns, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

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19. Laura Klein

Books: Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products, UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design

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20. Lisa Crispin

Books: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Testing Extreme Programming

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21. Lyssa Adkins

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

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22. Marty Cagan

Book: INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

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23. Mary Poppendieck

Books: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit: An Agile Toolkit, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions, Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point

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24. Mike Cohn

Books: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum

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25. Taiichi Ohno

No list would be complete without Taiichi Ohno. Bear in mind, the twitter account I linked isn’t him, however its full of some great quotes.

Books: Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management, Evolution of Toyota Production System

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