Books

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.

Technology doesn't fail companies. Relationships do. Connection is the answer. Twelve Practices, Thirty Six experts, Must Haves for AI success, backed by evidence not opinion, results in multiples, not by margins.

Do you want to be a (better) manager? Whether your answer is “yes,” or “no,” or “I don’t know,” this book is for you. If you don’t know, the book should help you decide—or help you do the right things while you postpone your decision. If your answer is “yes,” many of the book’s essays are designed to guide you successfully in that direction. And if your answer is “no,” many of the essays will show you how to avoid waking up one day to discover that somehow you have become a (worse) manager.

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!

#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.

Most enterprise AI programs do not fail because the model is weak. They fail because the organization cannot operate AI: costs are hidden, ownership is vague, governance is late, vendors create dependency, and production risk is not clearly assigned. This book helps leaders fix the system around the model.

The first book that addresses engineering management specifically for the AI-native era. Classic EM books like The Manager's Path and An Elegant Puzzle predate agentic coding tools — this one starts where they left off. Every chapter produces a concrete artifact: a hiring rubric, a performance calibration guide, a budget template, a rollout plan. By the end, you have a complete management playbook for leading engineering teams where agents write most of the code.

"The Factory That Remembers" is a fast-paced, cinematic business novel that blends drama, leadership, and Lean transformation. Inspired by classics like The Goal and The Phoenix Project, this story reimagines operational excellence as a human journey—where every process has a story, every machine has a memory, and every decision counts.

What is strategy?Why do you need it?How do you do it?And, how can you be more certain to succeed? THE ART OF STRATEGY provides timeless answers to these eternal questions. It is an introduction to strategy through the insights of three strategists: Sun Tzu, John Boyd & Simon Wardley. It is a modern interpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

Create awareness of toxic conflict behavior as a necessary first step to eliminate and replace it with healthy, productive communication patterns.

James Bach says, "Read this book and get your head straight about testing. I consider Jerry (Weinberg) to be the greatest living tester." Answers the questions that puzzle the most people: Why do we have to bother testing? Why not just test everything? What is it that makes testing so hard? Why does testing take so long? Is perfect software even possible? Why can't we just accept a few bugs?

If you are a consultant, or ever use a consultant, this book is for you. The author draws on his 50+ years of consulting experience to share his secrets about the often irrational world of consulting. "This is a great book. Period! ...this advice is clearly applicable to more than just consulting; it is applicable to life in general." "The book is truly wonderful. A must have!" - Amazon reviews

A personalized guide to developing the qualities that make a successful technical leader, with practical steps for developing those qualities.

The Corporate Sabotage Field Guide is a satirical field manual examining how organizations quietly undermine themselves from the inside. Framed like a classified dossier from the Office of Strategic Systemic Decay (OSSD), it catalogs familiar managerial practices — subtly weaponized to erode clarity, stall momentum, and sabotage culture under the guise of professionalism. Darkly humorous, uncomfortably accurate, and grounded in real systems behavior, it’s written for those who recognize that dysfunction often wears a lanyard.