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  1. Agile Constraints Management
    Agile Constraints Management
    Agile, Constraints Management and Throughput Economics for Collaborative Knowledge-Work and Software Engineering Management
    Steve Tendon

    Bridge the critical gap between Agile delivery and bottom-line business performance. Agile Constraints Management introduces a revolutionary framework that merges Agile adaptability with the Theory of Constraints and Throughput Economics. Stop chasing team-level "velocity" and start driving measurable economic throughput by pinpointing hidden bottlenecks, forecasting with scientific precision, and managing work through outcome-focused MOVEs.

  2. Engineering Manager’s Compass
    Engineering Manager’s Compass
    Insights for building effective engineering organizations
    Dunya Kirkali and Maxim Schepelin

    Whether you're stepping into your first management role or navigating a new company, this book shows you how to thrive by understanding the hidden rules that shape your role, building unshakeable team alignment, and mastering the art of planning in uncertainty. From decoding your company's DNA and organizational dynamics to turning vague ambitions into actionable plans, you'll discover practical frameworks that reveal why some engineering teams flourish while others get stuck in endless debates and missed deadlines. This is the book we wish we had when we first stepped into management.

  3. When Will It Be Done?
    When Will It Be Done?
    Lean-Agile Forecasting To Answer Your Customers' Most Important Question
    Daniel Vacanti

    The definitive guide on Lean-Agile forecasting that gives you all the tools you need in order to answer your customers' most important question.

  4. Opstart som selvstændig IT-konsulent
    Opstart som selvstændig IT-konsulent
    En praktisk guide der gennemgår hvordan du kommer i gang som freelance IT-konsulent i Danmark.
    Jens Øster, M.Sc.Eng.

    Drømmer du om at starte som freelance IT-konsulent? Føles det administrative arbejde uoverskueligt, og frygter du den usikre indkomst?Denne bog er din praktiske guide, skrevet af en erfaren IT-projektleder, der selv har navigeret i freelancelivets faldgruber. Med bogen lærer du, hvordan du:Skaber en robust forretningsplan, der sikrer stabil indkomst.Finder din første kunde og forhandler en attraktiv kontrakt.Får styr på skat, moms og etablerer dit administrative setup.Opbygger en stærk profil på LinkedIn.Læserudtalelser:Allan Melsen, Delivery Executive: "Det ville have sparet mig en masse tid og bekymringer, havde jeg vidst denne mini-bibel eksisterede fra starten."Henrik Staun Poulsen, Data Analyst: "En fremragende guide... gør det komplekse ved at starte op som freelancer mere håndgribeligt."Stop med at drømme – tag det første skridt mod friheden og fleksibiliteten som selvstændig. Denne guide giver dig de værktøjer, du skal bruge for at lykkes.

  5. AI for Product Managers
    AI for Product Managers
    Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Build Great Products
    Valerio Zanini

    AI is reshaping industries and products. This book helps Product Managers understand how to use AI tools to plan, design, and deliver great products. It explains the AI stack and strategic frameworks for integrating AI features into products; how to use GenAI to perform customer discovery, market research, and prototypings; and how the Product Development Life Cycle and the Model Development Life Cycle intersect when creating AI-driven products.

  6. CASHBOT: If You Buy a Humanoid Robot, How Much Money Could You Make?
    CASHBOT: If You Buy a Humanoid Robot, How Much Money Could You Make?
    The Small-Business Playbook for Tesla Optimus and the First Real Robot Service Businesses
    Finxter

    If a humanoid robot carries about $28,000 a year in fixed cost, then at $60 contribution per billable hour it breaks even at roughly 467 billable hours per year, or just under 9 hours per week. But if supervision is heavier and contribution drops to $28 per hour, break-even jumps to 1,000 hours per year, or about 19.2 hours per week.

  7. Toolbox for the Agile Coach - Visualization Examples
    Toolbox for the Agile Coach - Visualization Examples
    How great teams visualize their work
    Jimmy Janlén

    Visualization examples for agile teams and agile people.

  8. Document Review Toolkit
    Document Review Toolkit
    A Professional's Guide to Streamlining Approvals
    Jens Øster, M.Sc.Eng.

    Stop the endless loop of document reviews and start getting clear approvals. This professional guide provides a simple, battle-tested framework for project managers who want to cut through the noise and get to a firm decision, every time.

  9. Beyond the Next Sprint
    Beyond the Next Sprint
    Long-Term Planning for Agile and Hybrid Projects
    Jens Øster, M.Sc.Eng.

    Your sponsor wants a plan for next year. Your agile team plans two sprints ahead. Who is right? Both. This practical guide shows you how to combine agile and classic planning and estimation methods to make long-term plans for agile and hybrid projects. Seven estimation techniques, seven execution models and worked examples from more than 45 real IT projects. Give a range, not a promise, and keep it current.

  10. Practical Work Delivery with Multiple AIs
    Practical Work Delivery with Multiple AIs
    A step-by-step method for research, presentations and everyday work
    William Lee

    Plan the work, produce a useful result, check it with another AI, and improve it within clear limits. Practical examples for research, presentations and software.

  11. Stop Implementing AI
    Stop Implementing AI
    The No-BS Playbook for AI That Works
    Cliff Robbins

    Most companies are stuck in "pilot purgatory"—endless AI experiments that never scale. Teams spend weeks sharing clever prompts and one-off scripts, but nothing makes it into production. Budgets evaporate, engineers' enthusiasm curdles into cynicism, and executives start asking "we spent how much on this?" The problem isn't the AI tools—it's the approach. AI models are inherently non-deterministic (ask the same question twice, get different answers), while software engineering demands deterministic, reliable results. Without structure to bridge this gap, AI adoption fails spectacularly. This book introduces PIT™ (Plan Implement Test), a proven methodology that transforms unpredictable AI outputs into reliable engineering workflows. Built from thousands of hours of real development work, PIT™ channels AI's capabilities through structured planning, phased implementation, and comprehensive testing—delivering the consistency that production code demands.

  12. Even Better Books with LaTeX, the Agile Way in 2023
    Even Better Books with LaTeX, the Agile Way in 2023
    Streamline Your Writing Process and Connect with Readers from Day One
    Clemens Lode

    Better Books with LaTeX the Agile Way can help you to overcome obstacles along the way of self-publishing on Amazon, Google, and Leanpub, using the most powerful typesetting software available (LaTeX and Overleaf). It will also introduce you to a novel way of marketing, connecting you with your readers long before the book hits the shelves.

  13. The AI-Native Project Manager
    The AI-Native Project Manager
    A New Project Lifecycle for People and AI
    Syed Faizan Amjad

    AI now drafts the charter, builds the schedule, and writes the status report. The project lifecycle was not designed for that. The AI-Native Project Manager gives working project managers a redesigned lifecycle, the Governed Loop: five phases, three human checks, and an Autonomy Dial for deciding how much the machine does. Practical, sourced, and written by a PMP who runs multi-team programs for a living.

  14. Agile in the Enterprise
    Agile in the Enterprise
    Delivering Software at Scale Under Compliance, Governance and AI
    Chetan Sanghani

    What happens when scale, dependencies, compliance, governance and AI all press on your delivery system at once. Written from 25+ teams building FedRAMP-authorised government software.

  15. Yritysketteryys
    Yritysketteryys
    Käsikirja aikamme tärkeimpään työelämän muutokseen
    Maarit Laanti and Nora Bäckman

    Kuinka organisaatio oppii suuntaamaan tekemistään nopeasti ja tuottamaan arvoa jatkuvasti? Yritysketteryys tarjoaa käytännönläheisen kokonaiskuvan ketterästä johtamisesta, skaalatusta ketteryydestä ja organisaation muutoskyvykkyydestä.