Books

As an engineering leader, you will never get to the bottom of the list by working faster. Learn to lead your team as a single system across product, engineering, and people.

Your hard skills landed you the management position, but it’s your soft and management skills that will drive your success. Numerous books cover architecture and processes, "Amazing CTO" stands out as the essential guide for managing effectively, authored by influential CTO Coach Stephan Schmidt.

Do you need a high performance enterprise governance approach improving management, execution and delivery while dealing with multiple projects/products, events, stakeholders and teams? Giving you better bottom line results, faster time to market, less work, better predictability, happier employees, and delighted clients? Then learn about TameFlow!

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.

Dieser praktischer Leitfaden zeigt Ihnen, wie langjährig gewachsene Softwaresysteme effektiv analysiert und bewertet werden können.

One approach represents pure technological disruption: rapid experimentation, aggressive automation, digital-first thinking, and a culture built on bold engineering decisions.The other reflects decades of proven operational discipline: hybrid thinking, resilient systems, structured problem-solving, and a deep commitment to continuous improvement at every level. Tesla revolutionizes with fully electric vehicles, direct-to-consumer sales, and bold autonomous features. Toyota dominates with its hybrid origins, mastery of the Toyota Production System (TPS), and steel-willed manufacturing excellence.

Vous recherchez une approche de gouvernance d'entreprise à haute performance qui améliore la gestion, l'exécution et la livraison tout en gérant simultanément de multiples projets/produits, événements, parties prenantes et équipes ? Une approche qui vous apporte de meilleurs résultats financiers, une mise sur le marché plus rapide, une charge de travail réduite, une meilleure prédictibilité, des employés plus satisfaits et des clients ravis ? Alors découvrez TameFlow !

Just-in-Time Production takes you behind the scenes of Toyota’s revolutionary system, showing how the company emerged stronger than competitors after the 1970 oil crisis and became a global benchmark in manufacturing excellence. Learn why Western automakers misunderstood JIT—and how Lean Thinking, as popularized by James P. Womack, revealed the true power of connecting the whole value chain to customer demand.

Lean Finance for Managers shows you how to connect financial numbers with Lean principles so you can see your business more clearly and make better decisions. Written in plain language, with practical examples and case studies, it helps managers at every level turn accounting into a tool for performance—not just compliance.

Type two muda does not add value and can be quickly eliminated. An illustration is a process in a process village with disconnected phases that may be swiftly converted into a cell where unnecessary material moves and inventory are no longer necessary. A very small portion of all value-stream activities truly generate value as perceived by the client. The most effective way to boost business performance is to stop doing the numerous unnecessary things.

Projektmanagement und Agile haben Ihre Produktivität nicht so verbessert, wie Sie gehofft hatten? Termine sind oft nicht verlässlich vorhersagbar? TameFlux gibt Ihnen einen klaren Fokus durch Engpass-Optimierung für Unternehmen mit vielen Beteiligten

What happens when a quality management graduate discovers that the factory floor doesn't care about her degree? A story about standards, survival, and the real cost of poor quality.

Build BMS systems that don’t lie, don’t drift, and don’t catch fire. A practical guide for engineers who need real answers, not theory.

The ACM Code of Ethics won't protect you. This book traces how Harvard Business School deliberately stripped corporate America of its ethical guardrails, and applies lessons from military survival training to help software developers navigate the resulting power imbalance without losing themselves in the process.