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.

#1 Best Seller in Management Science (Amazon International, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden – Feb 2026) and in other categories. Available worldwide on Amazon (Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle) and across all major digital platforms, including Leanpub, Apple Books, and Google Play. Learn how to drive your organizational performance with people and AI to 10X and beyond — in impact and relevance.

Capable people drift into failure through accumulated lapses in attention. By the time collapse becomes visible, erosion has been active for years. Ishi is the discipline that interrupts drift before collapse forces correction.

Teams are producing more code than ever. Dashboards are green. And something is quietly breaking. AI coding assistants didn't break your development process; they revealed it was already fragile. Reimagine, Don't Retrofit is a field-tested argument that the software development lifecycle itself needs to be reimagined for the AI era, from governance and metrics to team roles and delivery flow.

First Principles in Scrum: The Definitive Guide to Agile Mastery First Principles in Scrum explores the deep foundations of Scrum and Agile, authored by Jeff Sutherland—Co-Creator of Scrum and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. With a new chapter added every sprint, it now is the largest Agile resource ever compiled. Drawing on his background as a senior research scientist trained in radiation physics, Sutherland explains how principles from physics, biology, and neuroscience shape Scrum’s effectiveness. He also delves into the future of Agile, demonstrating how AI, when integrated with Scrum@Scale, can drive exponential productivity—projected to make teams 30-100 times more productive by 2030 . Whether you’re a CEO, manager, or practitioner, this series is essential reading. It’s a roadmap to mastering agility in a rapidly changing world, offering insights into how the iterative cycles of Agile mirror the adaptability of complex systems while embracing AI as a transformative force.

Engineering excellence isn’t a team problem, it’s a leadership system problem.This book shows how operating models, decision rights, and measurement shape delivery outcomes, and why modern practices fail when the system around them still assumes predictability.

Da specialista a manager: un viaggio nella leadership moderna

What if wealth didn’t require self-betrayal? The INFJ Millionaire shows thoughtful, idealistic people how to build real financial freedom through calm strategy, ethical leverage, and systems that protect both their values and their energy.

Are you a VP or Head of Engineering considering the best quality engineering model for your company? Are you a director of Engineering tasked with rolling out a Quality Coach Model? Are you a test lead or software tester shifting to a quality coach role? The Quality Coach Handbook is your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team owns quality and in particular software engineers design, build, test and support software. Print version: Paperback and hardcover are available on Amazon. Use your country's Amazon site (e.g., Amazon.com.au for Australia) to minimise shipping time and cost.

Are you a VP or Head of Engineering considering the best quality engineering model for your company? Are you a director of Engineering tasked with rolling out a Quality Coach Model? Are you a test lead or software tester shifting to a quality coach role? The Quality Coach Handbook is your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team owns quality and in particular software engineers design, build, test and support software. Print version: Paperback and hardcover are available on Amazon. Use your country's Amazon site (e.g., Amazon.com.au for Australia) to minimise shipping time and cost.

Transform your cybersecurity from a necessary expense into a powerful engine for business expansion and market differentiation. This guide reveals how fractional executive leadership provides the enterprise-level strategy needed to build customer trust, navigate compliance, and outpace the competition. Stop just protecting your business and start using security to propel it forward.

Written for facilitators or coaches who need situational pointers in workplace settings,"The Visual Coach Handbook" is: A quick reference with a theme-based lookup system. It contains inspiring real-world examples where simple visuals are used to create more engaging workshops, meetings, and higher quality conversations. I’m pretty proud of this book you're about to hold in your hands. In these pages, I’m sharing some really personal stories of how I’ve used visuals to coach myself and my teams through tough spots. My hope is that it inspires you to grab a pen or an iPad and use simple visuals to help others, and even yourself, get from where you are to where you want to be. I get asked a lot for templates of the visuals I use. This book is more than a dictionary of templates. It’s got the building blocks of visual coaching that will help you be a better: • Note-taker• Communicator• Worker / Contributor • Manager• Coach• Facilitator • Consultant 

Your organization trained people to solve problems. The problems aren't surfacing -- because people don't feel safe raising them. This book connects psychological safety directly to continuous improvement, showing leaders what to change this week so that Lean tools actually work.

This book teaches you how to assemble and lead a data science enterprise so that your organization can move towards extracting information from big data. This book is based on the acclaimed Johns Hopkins Executive Data Science Specialization. Printed copies of this book are available through Lulu.