Business and IT Alignment

Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

The rise of AI coding tools is reshaping the software industry—bringing both disruption and unprecedented opportunity. For many software professionals, relying on a single job is no longer enough; building a profitable side income has become essential for financial security. Practical Software Side Hustles is your no-nonsense guide to navigating this new reality and securing your future.

The CISO's field guide to hardening ServiceNow, defending its APIs, and meeting NIS2, DORA, and EU AI Act obligations. Written by a former Principal Security Advisor in ServiceNow's Office of the CISO.

Your agent just read a file you didn't think mattered, followed an instruction hidden in a web page, and pushed a commit. None of it looked suspicious. That's the shape of agentic security — and *The Agentic Security Playbook* is how you close the gap before someone else finds it.

Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort—they suffer from a lack of alignment. Goals are misaligned, boundaries are unclear, and work often centres on internal priorities instead of user needs— resulting in frustration and delays. User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters offers a practical, visual way to reconnect organisations with the people they serve. Instead of guessing at structure or copying someone else’s model, this book shows you how to expose hidden dependencies, identify genuine user needs, and make better choices about team design and responsibilities. Through real-world case studies and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate tensions between wants, needs, and feasibility, create clarity of purpose, and build teams that deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re a leader, product manager, architect, or change agent, this book equips you to turn complexity into clarity and enable teams to flow faster—aligned around what matters.

You want to analyse, understand and capture the subject matter of a domain, typically because you want to build a software system in that domain? You're looking for abstractions to describe and ultimately execute said subject matter? Then this book is for you: it's chock-full of experience and practices for tackling this challenge.

This book describes 15 practical applications of Human Complexity in the context of software and digital products development. And suggests a new strategy for introducing Complexity thinking to your team and your organisation. The book is for leaders, managers, facilitators, change agents (Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches), and team members.

Example chapter available on ThinkingEA.com - A Very Common Tragedy (Chapter 17)

Most organizations know they have an AI problem. Few have the tools to diagnose it honestly, measure it rigorously, and close it systematically.

Learn the best techniques for creating your digital product and make it profitable as quickly as possible with the Startup Guide. Just as many successful companies, such as Caelum, ContaAzul, and Locaweb, who invested in their ideas.

Unlock the secrets of high-performing tech organizations with 'All Hands on Tech.' Drawing from 40+ years of experience across corporate giants and digital-native companies, this guide offers battle-tested strategies to transform your software development process, boost innovation, and deliver real business value at scale. Learn how to:• Align your tech strategy with business goals• Structure teams for maximum impact and innovation• Implement agile and DevOps practices at scale• Foster a culture that attracts and retains top talent• Deliver value consistently and rapidly Whether you're a CTO, engineering manager, or aspiring tech leader, you'll find actionable insights to transform your organization. This Minimum Viable Book (MVB) is a work in progress, inviting community input to shape its evolution into an indispensable resource for tech leadership.

Digitale Transformation war das Hype-Thema vor KI. Es gibt allerdings einen nicht geringen Anteil an Fach- und Führungskräften, deren Wissen darüber weiter ausbaufähig ist. Dieses Buch ist eine Einführung für alle diejenigen, die keine "digitalen Pioniere" sind, sondern wissen wollen, was aus dem Thema Digitalisierung auf sie zukommen kann und aus dem Thema KI zusätzlich auf sie zukommen wird.

Most enterprises can deliver fast, but few can adapt at scale.The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization. Learn how to build a system that senses change, learns continuously, and transforms disruption into strategic advantage.

Unleash the full power of ChatGPT in your life and work with "ChatGPT: the AI Appliance". Dive deep into the AI that's changing the digital landscape and learn how the "black box" mindset can help you with prompt engineering, response evaluation, and more. Turn the "black box" into your personal toolkit for success!