Books

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.

Major capital projects keep missing the mark—over budget, behind schedule and under-delivering. Why? Because we’re still using delivery models designed for a different era. Rethinking Capital Project Delivery offers a bold, practical roadmap for fixing what’s broken. It introduces a new approach built on adaptive planning, intelligent systems and transparent governance. Instead of managing complexity with more layers, it shows how agentic AI and modular strategies can simplify, accelerate, and de-risk major works. This book is for executives, project leaders, and policymakers ready to move beyond outdated practices. If you know the system isn’t working—and you want to be part of the solution—this is your guide.

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

Strong graduate applicants are rejected every year—not because they lack merit, but because their files trigger invisible risk signals during the first 78 seconds of review. This forensic manual exposes how graduate applications are actually scanned, filtered, and silently eliminated under cognitive load and institutional constraint. It documents the structural failure modes behind rejection and shows how to deploy applications that survive real review conditions.

Stress is unavoidable. Failure is part of the system. Resilient by Design shows how to recover faster, stay stable under pressure, and keep going when things hit hard, without burnout clichés or motivational noise.

Project Management is evolving. AI is automating tasks while leaders want insight and strategy. This playbook shows you how to use AI, understand data, and apply product thinking so you become the strategic, indispensable PM every team needs. Stop pushing tasks. Start driving value.

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.

You cannot lead what you cannot see. In AI-heavy organizations, illegibility is now the default. This book gives you fracture names, diagnostic protocols, and field kits for seeing and governing systems where dashboards lie and decisions live in prompts no one saved.

METROSYST reveals the invisible systems behind every metro vehicle — the power, control, and intelligence that keep a city moving. Written by engineer Sinan Balcı, this book turns complex rail technology into clear, visual, and practical insight. From traction to TCMS, GoA4 to RAMS — understand what every metro hides, and every engineer should know.

Lead incidents without noise. Clear moves with owner, time, witness, and a smallest test. Print-ready cards included.

Većina problema u isporuci nije uzrokovana kodom, timom ili procesom upravljanja radom. Oni počinju uzvodno: načinom na koji zahtevi sazrevaju (ili ne sazrevaju). Ready uvodi Tok Sazrevanja Zahteva (RMF), sistem za kontrolu, razjašnjavanje i usklađivanje posla — pre nego što počne i bez menjanja vašeg frameworka. Ako vaši Sprintovi završavaju prenošenjem, doradama ili isporukom pogrešnih stvari, RMF je strukturno rešenje koje vam je nedostajalo.

A maioria dos problemas de entrega não é causada pelo código, pela equipe ou pelo processo de gestão do trabalho. Eles começam lá no início (upstream): na forma como os requisitos amadurecem (ou não). O livro Ready apresenta o Requirements Maturation Flow (RMF), um sistema para controlar, esclarecer e alinhar o trabalho — antes de começar e sem alterar seu framework. Se suas Sprints terminam com tarefas reportadas, retrabalho ou entregando algo diferente do esperado, o RMF é a solução estrutural que você estava precisando.

A maioria dos problemas de entrega não é causada pelo código, pela equipa ou pelo processo de gestão do trabalho. Eles começam a montante: na forma como os requisitos amadurecem (ou não). O Ready apresenta o Requirements Maturation Flow (RMF), um sistema para controlar, clarificar e alinhar o trabalho — antes de começar e sem alterar o seu framework. Se os seus Sprints terminam com trabalho transitado, retrabalho ou com a entrega da coisa errada, o RMF é a solução estrutural que tem estado em falta.

大多数交付问题并非源于代码、团队或工作管理流程。 它们始于上游：源于需求的成熟（或不成熟）过程。 Ready引入了需求成熟度流程（RMF），这是一个用于关卡控制、明确和协调工作的系统 — 在工作开始之前且无需改变您现有框架。 如果您的冲刺总是以工作结转、返工或交付错误内容而告终，RMF就是您一直缺失的结构性解决方案。