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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. 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.

  3. First Principles in Scrum: OpenClaw Scrum and Scrum@Scale
    First Principles in Scrum: OpenClaw Scrum and Scrum@Scale
    Create Trust at Machine Speed
    Jeff Sutherland

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. Deliver What Matters When It Matters
    Deliver What Matters When It Matters
    Value-Driven Product Delivery through Clarity, Timing, and Flow
    Ryan Kent

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. Beyond the Feature Factory

    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.

  8. The Ishi Spiral
    The Ishi Spiral
    A Foundational Guide
    Gareth Holebrook

    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'.

  9. No One is Coming to Save You
    No One is Coming to Save You
    The Power-Ups to Help Surf the Chaos
    Stuart Young and Dave Prior

    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.

  10. The Chief AI Officer
    The Chief AI Officer
    How to Build, Lead, and Scale AI Across the Enterprise
    Steve Publications

    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.

  11. Yritysketteryys
    Yritysketteryys
    Käsikirja aikamme tärkeimpään työelämän muutokseen
    Maarit Laanti and Nora Bäckman

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

  12. The Lean Brain
    The Lean Brain
    How Neuroscience Can Supercharge Continuous Improvement
    Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman

    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.

  13. Platform Engineering in the AI Era
    Platform Engineering in the AI Era
    Building Developer Platforms for Cloud-Native and AI-Native Organizations
    Steve Publications

    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.

  14. SUSTAINABLE IT, the right way
    SUSTAINABLE IT, the right way
    Reduce the IT impacts, optimize resources, and drive sustainable digital transformation in a practical way.
    Francesco Fullone

    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.

  15. The Principal Engineer's Journey
    The Principal Engineer's Journey
    A Practical Guide to Technical Leadership at Scale
    Steve Publications

    Becoming a Principal Engineer is about more than technical expertise. The Principal Engineer's Journey offers a practical roadmap with proven frameworks, real-world examples and actionable guidance to help experienced engineers lead with greater influence and impact.