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  1. The practical guide to AI-first teamwork. Includes access to the 'CollabAI AI companion' that helps you run your first session immediately. Most teams have fast individuals—but a slow system. AI can change that. CollabAI is the manual for teams who want to stop waiting and start flowing. It moves beyond "chatting with a bot" to a new collaborative rhythm where humans and AI build, test, and decide together in real time. Inside, you’ll discover:The Framework: How to run CollabAI sessions that compress weeks of work into hours.The Science: Why "System 2 Rituals" and psychological safety are the hard requirements for speed.The Scale: How to apply Joe Justice’s principles (Justice Boards & DSM) to run entire organizations without managers.The Future: How to transition safely to Agentic AI workflows using the Agion Pattern.Start optimizing the flow.

  2. Ansible for DevOps
    Server and configuration management for humans
    Jeff Geerling

    Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server—or thousands.

  3. Introducing EventStorming
    An act of Deliberate Collective Learning
    Alberto Brandolini

    The deepest tutorial and explanation about EventStorming, straight from the inventor.

  4. The Software Developers’ Guidebook
    A Collection of Modern Engineering Practices
    David Farley and Bernard McCarty (Editor)

    A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.

  5. Stop Facilitating, Start Leading
    The Scrum Master's Path to Value Flow Management
    Tristan Libersat

    You’ve facilitated your 50th retrospective. The same issues surface. The same action items are created. Nothing changes. Features marked "done" sit in queues for months. You’re doing your job perfectly—and it’s making no difference.What if the problem isn’t your facilitation skills? What if the Scrum Master role itself is trapped in an outdated model?

  6. User Needs Mapping
    Aligning Teams Around What Matters
    Rich Allen

    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.

  7. The Cybernetic Enterprise
    How to Build a Future-Ready Organization
    Romano Roth

    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.

  8. Talking with Tech Leads
    From Novices to Practitioners
    Patrick Kua

    A book for Tech Leads, from Tech Leads. Discover how more than 35 Tech Leads find the delicate balance between the technical and non-technical worlds. Discover the challenges a Tech Lead faces and how to overcome them. You may be surprised by the lessons they have to share.

  9. Domain-Driven Design Distillé
    Tomasz Jaskula and Vaughn Vernon

    La modélisation logicielle DDD (Domain-Driven Design) donne des résultats puissants dans la pratique, non seulement en théorie. C'est la raison pour laquelle les développeurs du monde entier s'orientent rapidement vers son adoption. Maintenant, pour la première fois, il existe un guide français, une traduction officielle du livre DDD Distilled.

  10. The BDD Books - Discovery (Japanese Edition)
    BDD/ATDDの第1ステップ:具体例を使って振る舞いを探索する
    Yuya Kazama, Gáspár Nagy, and Seb Rose

    ウクライナ難民を支援 - 2022年5月末まで延長! この本の売り上げの50%は、 https://unicef.hu/veszhelyzet-ukrajnaban と https://int.depaulcharity.org/fundraising-for-depaul-ukraine/ に寄付されます。 本書籍は、振る舞い駆動開発(Behavior Driven Development, BDD)や受け入れテスト駆動開発(Acceptance Test-Driven Development, ATDD)の発見フェーズを最大限に活用する方法を提供します。

  11. Event Sourcing in Python
    Event-oriented analysis and design with applications
    John Bywater

    A pattern language for event sourced applications and reliable distributed systems. Examples are written in the Python programming language. Now includes event-oriented introductions to the pattern language scheme of Christopher Alexander, the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and the person-centred psychology of Rogers and Rosenberg.

  12. Struggling to boost project throughput, align teams, and scale agile without chaos? Wolfram Müller, with 25 years of hands-on experience and over 530 hyper-productive projects, distills what every top manager wishes they knew earlier! How to harness FLOW, Agile, and the Theory of Constraints (TOC) for radical performance gains. This book is your shortcut—proven to elevate CIOs to "CIO of the Year" and empower managers to deliver 2–5x more with less stress. Packed with powerful templates, real-world tools like Critical Chain Project Management, and insights on self-organization, you’ll learn to transform delivery, unlock hidden capacity, and lead change without triggering corporate resistance. Skip the trial-and-error—get the system that works. Your leap in performance starts here.

  13. Antifragile Software
    Building Adaptable Software with Microservices
    Russ Miles

    For notifications on the latest updates to the book, please follow @russmiles on Twitter. We’ve spent over a decade now becoming more and more agile and adaptable in our ways of working. Unfortunately our software is now struggling to keep up with the pace of innovation that is increasingly being demanded by modern businesses. It's time to sort that out. It's time for Antifragile Software with Microservices.

  14. A Practical Approach to API Design
    From Principles to Practice
    D. Keith Casey Jr and James Higginbotham

    If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. They treat it as another checkbox like "Web 2.0" was a few years ago or a mobile app was most recently. In fact, there's an entire "API-first" movement in development circles that most people don't understand or even realize why..

  15. Continuous Delivery Pipelines
    How to Build Better Software Faster
    Dave Farley

    This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best continuous delivery pipeline for your software.