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  1. Le Livre de TameFlow
    Le Livre de TameFlow
    La Théorie des Contraintes appliquée au Travail collaboratif de nature intellectuelle
    Steve Tendon and José Coignard

    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 !

  2. Engineering Manager’s Compass
    Engineering Manager’s Compass
    Insights for building effective engineering organizations
    Dunya Kirkali and Maxim Schepelin

    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.

  3. Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others
    Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others
    Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2
    Johanna Rothman

    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.

  4. Lean Finance for Managers
    Lean Finance for Managers
    How to Connect Numbers with Flow
    Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

    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.

  5. Technical Leadership
    Technical Leadership
    Dreams, success and unicorns
    Giuliana Carullo

    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.

  6. Critique of Management Reason
    Critique of Management Reason
    Management Bits and Tips from Can’t
    Dmitry Vostokov

    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.

  7. Developer Accountability
    Developer Accountability
    Responsibility, Ownership and Holding Developers Accountable
    Stephan Schmidt

    Holding developers accountable is key to everyones happiness, and to maximize productivity. This booklet shows you why and how to hold developers accountable and still being likeable.

  8. Sustainability for Java Developers
    Sustainability for Java Developers
    Towards an Understanding of Sustainable Java Software Development
    Geertjan Wielenga, Frank Delporte, Simon Martinelli, Markus Westergren, Jan Ouwens, Jan-Hendrik Kuperus, jlengrand, A N M Bazlur Rahman, Vasco Correia Veloso, Ko Turk, Hanno Embregts, and Maarten Mulders

    Discover how Java developers can contribute to a sustainable future. Written by Java Champions and community experts, this collaborative guide explores practical approaches to sustainable software engineering, from resource-efficient design to mindful architecture, empowering you to reduce your environmental impact while building better systems.

  9. Answerable to Reality
    Answerable to Reality
    The Nature of Product Development, and How to Manage It
    Jussi Mäkelä

    A management book for product development leaders tired of "on track" reports that turn out to mean nothing. It shows how to make "better" explicit enough to design against, spend against, and be proven wrong by.

  10. Lean Six Sigma for Software Development
    Lean Six Sigma for Software Development
    A Practical Guide to Building High-Performance Engineering Organizations Through Continuous Improvement
    Steve Publications

    What happens when Lean Six Sigma meets software development? This practical guide shows engineering leaders and teams how to improve quality, flow and performance without losing sight of how software actually gets built. From Agile and DevOps to metrics and continuous improvement, learn what works, what doesn't and how to make change stick.

  11. Fix the Ladder
    Fix the Ladder
    Growing Junior Engineers in the Age of AI
    Giordano Scalzo

    AI can help engineers ship code they cannot explain. This complete, illustrated guide helps engineering managers and CTOs grow judgement alongside that speed, with a six-session mentoring course, reusable exercises, and the business case for junior hiring.

  12. Agile Constraints Management
    Agile Constraints Management
    Agile, Constraints Management and Throughput Economics for Collaborative Knowledge-Work and Software Engineering Management
    Steve Tendon

    Bridge the critical gap between Agile delivery and bottom-line business performance. Agile Constraints Management introduces a revolutionary framework that merges Agile adaptability with the Theory of Constraints and Throughput Economics. Stop chasing team-level "velocity" and start driving measurable economic throughput by pinpointing hidden bottlenecks, forecasting with scientific precision, and managing work through outcome-focused MOVEs.

  13. Design Review Based on Failure Mode
    Design Review Based on Failure Mode
    How Toyota Engineers Use an Advanced Model of FMEA to Improve Product Reliability (Toyota’s GD3)
    Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

    This book explains how Toyota uses DRBFM as a practical extension of FMEA during the design phase, where up to 80% of product quality is determined. Instead of repeating a generic FMEA, DRBFM zeroes in on design changes, asking: What could go wrong because of this change?

  14. Secure Software Supply Chains
    Secure Software Supply Chains
    End-to-End Security for Modern Software Delivery
    Steve Publications

    Your software is only as secure as the path it takes to production. This book walks you through protecting every stage of the software supply chain, from dependencies and builds to deployment and runtime. Learn practical techniques, proven tools and the mindset needed to stop modern supply chain attacks before they spread.

  15. Framework-Free Software Engineering
    Framework-Free Software Engineering
    Building Robust Systems Without Heavyweight Dependencies
    Steve Publications

    Frameworks make it easy to get started, but they often hide the fundamentals. This book takes you back to the core ideas behind reliable software, showing how to build fast, maintainable systems with fewer dependencies and better engineering decisions. Write software you truly understand and control.