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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 10X ORG – Powered by Org Topologies
    10X ORG – Powered by Org Topologies
    A Manager's Guide to Elevating Business Performance with People and AI
    Alexey Krivitsky, Craig Larman, Roland Flemm

    #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.

  4. The Quality Coach's Handbook
    The Quality Coach's Handbook
    Mastering the Quality Coach Role in Organisations
    Anne-Marie Charrett

    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.

  5. The Quality Coach's Handbook
    The Quality Coach's Handbook
    Mastering the Quality Coach Role in Organisations
    Anne-Marie Charrett

    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.

  6. Actionable Agile Metrics For Predictability: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability is a comprehensive guide on how to use flow metrics and analytics to get the predictability your customers crave.

  7. First Principles in Scrum: Foundations Japanese

    もっと優れたスクラムマスターになりたいですか? 世界に変化をもたらしたいですか?アジャイルチームに責任を持つマネージャーの方ですか?そうであれば、スクラムにおける第一原理を学ぶ必要があります。これらの洞察が人生を変えた、あるいは人生を取り戻させてくれたと語る人もいます。変化を起こす準備はできていますか? それなら、この本を読んでください。

  8. Menos software, más impacto
    Menos software, más impacto
    Cómo evitar que tu equipo colapse bajo el peso de su propio código
    Eduardo Ferro Aldama

    Tu equipo no va lento porque escriba mal código: va lento porque escribe código de más. Una guía práctica para gestionar el coste basal del software y recuperar la capacidad del equipo, combinando Lean Software Development, Extreme Programming y mentalidad de producto.

  9. Leading Engineering Teams in the AI Era
    Leading Engineering Teams in the AI Era
    The manager's playbook for AI-native engineering organizations
    CAIO INCAU

    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.

  10. Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II
    Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II
    Advanced Topics in Predictability
    Daniel S. Vacanti

    The second volume in a series on how to use flow metrics and analytics to get the predictability your customers crave.

  11. First Principles in Scrum: Foundations

    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.

  12. ACT 2 LEAD
    ACT 2 LEAD
    Software Testing Leadership Handbook
    Kari Kakkonen and Marko Rytkönen

    This book is written for anyone who wants to understand what testing and testing leadership are all about. A better understanding will help to lead and improve your testing - whether testing is outsourced or in-house. CEO, CIO, or CTO - this is the testing book for you, too! It's also for anyone who works with software: product owners, project managers, system analysts, developers, testers, test managers, and many others, including students. We have created ACT 2 LEAD mnemonic to help you in leading testing.  Read the book to learn what it means!

  13. Scrum for Hardware (Japanese)
    Scrum for Hardware (Japanese)
    Japanese Edition by Toru Takeuchi
    Paolo Sammicheli and toru takeuchi

    SCRUM for HARDWAREを生み出した男達の物語:本書はWikispeedの誕生から最初のScrum for Hardware Gathering、Agile Product Charter、そしてScrum@Scaleに至るストーリー、そしてSCRUM for HARDWAREのメソッド、ケーススタディ、3つのパートに分かれています。本書の売上の50%が、WIKISPEEDプロジェクトをサポートするために寄付されます。英語版もあります。

  14. 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.

  15. Becoming a Technical Leader
    Becoming a Technical Leader
    Gerald M. Weinberg

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