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.

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.

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!

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.

Stop renting visibility. Start owning the infrastructure. Learn the protocol that delivered 548k hits and 95% Edge efficiency on a 20-year-old "rottame".

Don't waste your time to learn how to code. That's what AI is here for. This book focuses on the far more profound question: What to code? This is the new meta skill between now and 2030!

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.

Are you responsible for an industrial operation?Or an entrepreneur starting out in production, pursuing the idea you're passionate about?Have you just graduated with an engineering degree and are starting to work in a factory?Or are you responsible for the finances of your industrial company and want to contribute ideas that challenge the status quo for engineers?Whatever your connection to a production unit, you will find in this work invaluable material to implement actions that professionalize your company, with measures that consolidate an effective management style, as well as the savings that will lead it to maximum competitiveness.

¿Eres responsable de una operación industrial?¿O un emprendedor que inicia su andadura en la producción, persiguiendo la idea que te apasiona?¿Acabas de graduarte en ingeniería y empiezas a trabajar en una fábrica?¿O eres responsable de las finanzas de tu empresa industrial y quieres aportar ideas que desafíen el statu quo de los ingenieros?Sea cual sea tu vínculo con una unidad de producción, en este trabajo encontrarás material invaluable para implementar acciones que profesionalicen tu empresa, con medidas que consoliden un estilo de gestión eficaz, así como los ahorros que la llevarán a la máxima competitividad.

Fix software delivery problems by addressing their real causes, not the symptoms. Divided into concise, standalone executive briefs you can use immediately.

To boldly deploy on Fridays like everyone else has before.

Rapid Iterative Development offers a clear, practical framework for bringing the speed and adaptability of agile software methods into the world of hardware. Whether you're designing electronics, robotics, or complex mechanical systems, this book shows how to reduce cycle times, respond faster to test results, and move from concept to production without losing quality.