Books

You want to analyse, understand and capture the subject matter of a domain, typically because you want to build a software system in that domain? You're looking for abstractions to describe and ultimately execute said subject matter? Then this book is for you: it's chock-full of experience and practices for tackling this challenge.

The practical guide to AI-first teamwork. Includes access to the 'CollabAI AI companion' that helps you run your first session immediately. Most teams have fast individuals—but a slow system. AI can change that. CollabAI is the manual for teams who want to stop waiting and start flowing. It moves beyond "chatting with a bot" to a new collaborative rhythm where humans and AI build, test, and decide together in real time. Inside, you’ll discover:The Framework: How to run CollabAI sessions that compress weeks of work into hours.The Science: Why "System 2 Rituals" and psychological safety are the hard requirements for speed.The Scale: How to apply Joe Justice’s principles (Justice Boards & DSM) to run entire organizations without managers.The Future: How to transition safely to Agentic AI workflows using the Agion Pattern.Start optimizing the flow.

Learn to build products businesses buy. Follow the process used by thousands of entrepreneurs and quickly get from idea to product-market fit in B2B.

Know Your Numbers gives founders the clarity to see what is really happening behind revenue, growth, and momentum. When you understand CAC, conversion, gross margin, churn, payback, runway, and cash burn, you stop guessing and start deciding like an owner.

This book provides a holistic and complete view of the data strategy elements, enabling the practitioner at every step.

A pathway to a new philosophy of work, management & leadership, and a call to action for anyone faced with Intractable Problems & Elusive Opportunities. For current, aspiring, formal, and informal leaders. This book presents new principles, attitudes and behaviours along with examples from organisations and concrete practices. Perfectly suited for this digital, hyperconnected world and the ongoing Artificial Intelligence revolution.

Stretch your thinking! Children are great assets in society with marvelous transformational power. Have mutual leadership with children, including your own inner child. Start with others in your immediate neighborhood as a first step in building up a happier world together!

You don't owe the world your code. Open-source culture has a default: build something good, publish it, license it, answer the issues, keep it compatible forever. The Sovereign Developer asks the question that default skips: what does this developer actually gain by making this work public, and what do they give up to do it?This is not an argument against open source. It's an argument against treating openness as the automatic answer for every project. Drawing on economics, law, and the realities of maintainer burnout, the book makes the case that keeping software private can be the better choice for a given developer, and if you've already published something that no longer serves you, it offers a framework for deciding what to do next.For developers who have felt pressure to open-source something without ever weighing the cost, this book makes the case for the other option.

Profit does not have to come at the expense of people — and purpose does not have to depend on charity.Somewhere between the business that only counts money and the charity that never counts on itself, a third way is emerging. It is not philanthropy with a product line, nor branding with a heart. It is a fundamentally different kind of venture — one where the core operation itself creates impact, where sustainability and mission are built into the same mechanism.This is not a dream. It is a discipline. And it can be learned.From problem diagnosis to responsible scaling, from mission-locked governance to honest impact measurement — here is the complete practical guide to building ventures that do well by doing good. No fluff, no hollow promises — just the design choices, structures, and leadership that turn conviction into something durable.

People do not quit organizations—they quit feeling unseen. This book proves compassion is not weakness: it is the most powerful, sustainable strategy for earning trust, unlocking full potential, and building something that lasts.

Ideas are abundant. Outcomes are rare.What happens when Forward Deployment evolves beyond an engineering role and becomes an enterprise operating capability?Idea to Outcome explores how enterprises can bring business context, engineering, AI and multidisciplinary teams together to move from discovery to deployment—and from activity to measurable outcomes.The distance between an idea and its outcome is where enterprise value is either created—or lost.

This Developer's Guide is the second in the "Disciples of Renown™" gaming series. It leads you through the development of the "Sanctify Hollowed Grounds" Role-Playing Game in both Construct v3 & v2 encoding formats. It's perfect for novices, experienced web developers, and anyone wanting their own bespoke game, artwork, and features.

Every news feed is full of AI buzzwords: Transformers, tokens, embeddings, context windows, hallucinations, objective functions. Yet most explanations are either dense academic textbooks or empty marketing fluff. ☕ Coffee Break AI is your practical guide to AI. Written in plain English with warm real-world analogies. It breaks down the core mechanisms of AI into 40 bite-sized chapters.

The dominant narrative still treats Al as a new software category - something to procure from a vendor, deploy in a department, measure ROI on, and slot into existing systems. This view has produced thousands of pilots, hundreds of case studies and research papers, and surprisingly modest impact on actual organisational performance. That is not a technology problem. It is an organizational one.

事実と解釈を切り分け、本当に取り組むべき課題を見極め、矛盾を捉え、大きなコストをかける前に解決策を検証するための実践書である。土台となるのは、TRIZ、システム思考、認知行動アプローチ、JTBDである。