Books

Da specialista a manager: un viaggio nella leadership moderna

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.

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!

#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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Do you want to be a better Scrum Master? Do you want to make a difference in the world? Are you a manager responsible for Agile teams. If so, then you need to learn the First Principles in Scrum. Some people say that these insights have changed their life, or given them their life back. Are you ready to make a change? Then read this book.

Why are some developers on fire while others stall? You've implemented DORA, SPACE, DevEx—but still, performance varies wildly. The missing piece? Motivation. Developer Motivation offers a groundbreaking model: DMO = Joy + Discipline – Frustration. Created by veteran CTO and coach Stephan Schmidt, this book puts the developer—not the metric—at the center of productivity. Learn why joy matters, how discipline fuels progress, and how frustration silently kills momentum. Packed with stories from real teams, insights from decades of experience, and instantly actionable strategies, this book will help you build motivated, productive teams—and finally understand the "why" behind developer performance. Whether you're a CTO, engineering manager, or lead developer, this is your guide to higher performance through deeper understanding.

How To Level Up In Life Simply By Changing The Way You Think Discover The Proven & Powerful Mindset Secrets That Highly-Successful People use To Dominate Every Area of Their Life...

Tired of teamwork advice that sounds good on posters but doesn’t help in real meetings? TeamBOK: Team Body Of Knowledge distills 100 research-informed, field-tested lessons that show you how real teams work: how to handle conflict, design roles, run better meetings, and make diversity an asset instead of a source of friction. Whether you’re a developer, manager, coach, or teammate in any field, you’ll find short, actionable ideas you can read in minutes and apply in your team the same week.

Hoe je beter kunt worden in het leren van fouten — het opbouwen van een cultuur waarin geleerd wordt van fouten binnen je team of organisatie.

Most enterprises can deliver fast, but few can adapt at scale.The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization. Learn how to build a system that senses change, learns continuously, and transforms disruption into strategic advantage.