Books

You distinguish yourself from others not so much by what you've read, viewed or listened to, but by the lasting impact that information has had upon you. How can you use knowledge to become a more effective person? Cognitive Productivity answers this question with cognitive science and practical strategies.

Great managers lead and serve others by creating an environment where people can do their best work. Create trust, loyalty, and engagement as a modern manager. Learn to lead and serve others with ease.

"The AI confirmed X for me" used as proof of X. Outputs that sound brilliant but don't hold up to a severe re-reading. A three-page "AI policy" that nobody reads. Sound familiar? Thinking with LLMs, the Right Way is the system of critical thinking applied to LLMs: the Thinking-With Triangle (Intent / Adversary / Editor), the four meta-decisions of governance, the Socratic and adversarial practices for investigating and verifying. Not prompt engineering: the method for not letting yourself be mirrored.

Do you want to be a better Scrum Master? Do you want to make a difference in the world? Are you a manager responsible for Agile teams. If so, then you need to learn the First Principles in Scrum. Some people say that these insights have changed their life, or given them their life back. Are you ready to make a change? Then read this book.

This book brings the fundamentals of R programming to you, using the same material developed as part of the industry-leading Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization. The skills taught in this book will lay the foundation for you to begin your journey learning data science. Printed copies of this book are available through Lulu.

Stop fighting the infrastructure and start building the future. Building Software Platforms shows you how to transform raw cloud complexity into a seamless internal product. Learn the architectural blueprints and strategic plays to build a platform that gets out of the way, turning your developers from 'troubleshooters' into creative problem solvers.

Impact mapping helps to create better plans and roadmaps that ensure alignment of business and delivery, and help organisations make an impact with their software.

We need leaders, and eventually we want to become a really good one. Often times it is confusing still. What distinguishes a manager from a leader? What distinguishes a leader from a technical one in today tech world?  This book walks through what makes or breaks a good technical leader - in a very opinionated manner.

What are KPIs? - everyone might think they know but what are they really?And what are these OKRs that look a bit like KPIs?Should I use them both? How should I combine them?Numbers, numbers, numbers, we might be rational but should we apply them everywhere?If everything is a number then what is the meaning of business and work?

A detailed plan does not always lead to a better decision. Learn how to separate facts from assumptions, identify the unknowns that matter, and test your beliefs before taking action. This short, practical book includes a decision-review worksheet you can use in your own life or work.

This book is an anthology of posts on people and project management from 2008 to 2010, when the author was a manager and was roaming between management training sessions. It started as a blog, Management Bits and Tips: Reflections on Software Engineering and Software Technical Support Management, which now survives as a Facebook page, ManagementBits. When the author returned to engineering after management in 2009, he wanted to publish a book with the original title, Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager. Around 2015, he changed its title to Critique of Management Reason: Management Bits and Tips from Can't and added a few more bits as late as 2017.

This book teaches you to use R to effectively visualize and explore complex datasets. Exploratory data analysis is a key part of the data science process because it allows you to sharpen your question and refine your modeling strategies. This book is based on the industry-leading Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization.

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.

The use of topographical intelligence in business strategy. I am publishing this ebook as a way to experiment with Leanpub and learn how it works before starting to produce my own original content. It wouldn't feel right accepting payment for someone else's work, so ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITY.