Books

“Happily purchased. Handy to have these in one place. Thank you!” — Kent Beck “Excellent new thinking on Domain-Driven Design. It's full of real practical experience in getting the most value from domain modelling. Just like the Eric Evans' DDD book, this gives more insight each time you read it.” — Ian Russell

Fifty RF‑101 Voodoos arrived in Vietnam. Forty‑seven were shot down in a year. The pilots who survived didn't fly faster aircraft — they cycled through the OODA loop faster than the missiles chasing them. Jeff Sutherland was one of them. He went on to co‑create Scrum. Now, six decades later, he is running AI agents through daily sprints at machine speed — and this book is the playbook for how to do it without getting shot down.

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

Deliver What Matters, When It Matters is a practical guide to delivery optimization for teams working in complex environments. Through real-world stories and actionable tools, it helps coaches, product managers, and delivery leaders close the gap between effort and impact.

What You’ll LearnHow to measure impact and effectiveness of working differentlyThe mistakes you can make around agility and how to avoid themMeasuring team agility at scale, agnostic of any chosen frameworkReal case studies and examples from practical application in large organisations, rather than just theory

To paraphrase Pascal Van Cauwenberghe: Building great products is easy: build a great team and they'll build it for you. This book will help you building that team.

Most companies claim to be agile. Few actually are. The rituals changed; the waterfall mindset survived. This guide shows what real agile looks like through one concrete story: an empowered team going from business problem to measurable impact in eight weeks. Continuous discovery, TDD, feature flags, no story points. Practices you can put to work on Monday.

No One is Coming to Save You is your no-fluff guide to thriving in chaos. Forget trends and templates—this book delivers the essential human skills (“Power-Ups”) you need to survive and grow in an uncertain world. Straight talk, real stories, and practical tools from two people who’ve failed forward so you don’t have to.

You already know how to work hard. The question is whether you know when to stop.Most frameworks optimize effort. The Ishi Spiral governs it. It is a discipline of self-governance that sustains performance under pressure without drifting into burnout or grinding past the point where continuation is still justified. The Guide is the Companion to 'Ishi: the Discipline of Determined Intent'.

AI has moved from the lab to the boardroom. The Chief AI Officer offers a practical guide to leading that shift, from deciding whether you need a CAIO to building the teams, governance and strategy that turn AI into real business value.

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.

Kuinka organisaatio oppii suuntaamaan tekemistään nopeasti ja tuottamaan arvoa jatkuvasti? Yritysketteryys tarjoaa käytännönläheisen kokonaiskuvan ketterästä johtamisesta, skaalatusta ketteryydestä ja organisaation muutoskyvykkyydestä.

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and Lean Six Sigma principles, this groundbreaking book explores how lasting transformation happens not through better tools—but through rewiring how people think, feel, and act.

Software teams are building faster than ever, but scaling engineering takes more than great code. This book shows how to create developer platforms that simplify delivery, support cloud-native systems and prepare organizations for the demands of AI. Practical, technical and grounded in real-world experience.

In a world where every byte has an impact, Sustainable IT, the Right Way turns digital sustainability from slogan into daily practice. No abstract theory: numbers, monitoring, OKRs, and a real action plan. Concrete examples, ready-to-use tools, and the Green Software Foundation's best practices, in operational language for those who want to make a difference today.