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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. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Executive Data Science
    Executive Data Science
    A Guide to Training and Managing the Best Data Scientists
    Brian Caffo, Roger D. Peng, and Jeffrey Leek

    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.

  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. 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.

  7. The Cybernetic Enterprise
    The Cybernetic Enterprise
    How to Build a Future-Ready Organization
    Romano Roth

    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.

  8. The Silence Tax
    The Silence Tax
    How Lean Leaders Drive Out Fear and Futility
    Mark Graban

    What are the problems nobody is telling you about? The Silence Tax helps Lean leaders make speaking up both safe and worthwhile by addressing fear and futility. Read the introduction and first seven chapters now, with future ebook updates included at no additional charge.

  9. First Principles in Scrum: Implementing Scrum and Agile Practices

    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.

  10. Choosing Strategic Priorities
    Choosing Strategic Priorities
    How to Focus Strategy When Resources Are Limited
    Nabal Kishore Pande

    How should an organisation choose its most important priorities when resources cannot support every ambition? This book presents a practical framework for comparing options, making trade-offs, allocating resources and turning strategic choices into focused execution. It includes worksheets and decision tools to help leaders make priorities clear, defensible and actionable.

  11. Engineering Manager’s Compass
    Engineering Manager’s Compass
    Insights for building effective engineering organizations
    Dunya Kirkali and Maxim Schepelin

    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.

  12. 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.

  13. Reimagine, Don't Retrofit
    Reimagine, Don't Retrofit
    A Leadership Guide to AI-Driven Software Development
    Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas

    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.

  14. Less Software, More Impact
    Less Software, More Impact
    How to keep your team from collapsing under the weight of its own code
    Eduardo Ferro Aldama

    Your team isn't slow because it writes bad code: it's slow because it writes too much code. A practical guide to managing the basal cost of software and reclaiming your team's capacity, combining Lean Software Development, Extreme Programming and a product mindset.

  15. Thinking in Bottlenecks
    Thinking in Bottlenecks
    The Engineering Mindset for Solving Anything Faster
    Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

    What if your biggest obstacle isn't effort, but flow?Thinking in Bottlenecks reveals how the hidden constraints around you—and inside you—are the true culprits behind slow results, wasted effort, and stalled progress. Inspired by the legendary Theory of Constraints, this book blends systems engineering, Lean thinking, and real-world experience into a practical mindset for solving anything faster