Books

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.

“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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 LearnWhy burnup charts create false certainty, and what they get wrongHow to run Monte Carlo simulation properly, including where "just use Monte Carlo" breaks down with feature WIP and dependenciesHow to forecast across a single team, multiple features, and multi-team initiatives with dependenciesReal examples and free, ready-to-use tools, rather than just theory

Die meisten Unternehmen können schnell liefern, aber nur wenige können sich in großem Maßstab anpassen.The Cybernetic Enterprise stellt ein einheitliches Betriebsmodell vor, das KI, Rückkopplungsschleifen und Plattform-Denken in die DNA Ihrer Organisation einbettet. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie ein System aufbauen, das Veränderungen wahrnimmt, kontinuierlich lernt und Disruption in strategische Vorteile verwandelt.

There is a lot of noise out there about Kanban.  Search the interwebs and you will quickly get lost in the cacophony that is disinformation about flow.  We hope this book will help you navigate some of that noise around what we believe are the most exciting set of practices in the Lean-Agile world.   To learn more, please visit us at ProKanban.org!

Big teams slow down. Small, AI-powered teams move fast. This book shows how two people + AI can ship features faster, cheaper, and with less noise—using processes you can run with today’s tools.

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.

Patching vulnerabilities is only part of the job. Beyond the Patch explores how software weaknesses arise, how attackers find and exploit them and what it takes to stop them before they become real threats. From code-level analysis to practical defense strategies, this book offers the knowledge and tools to build more secure software and stay ahead of evolving attacks.

AI now drafts the charter, builds the schedule, and writes the status report. The project lifecycle was not designed for that. The AI-Native Project Manager gives working project managers a redesigned lifecycle, the Governed Loop: five phases, three human checks, and an Autonomy Dial for deciding how much the machine does. Practical, sourced, and written by a PMP who runs multi-team programs for a living.