Books

A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.

This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best continuous delivery pipeline for your software.

Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort—they suffer from a lack of alignment. Goals are misaligned, boundaries are unclear, and work often centres on internal priorities instead of user needs— resulting in frustration and delays. User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters offers a practical, visual way to reconnect organisations with the people they serve. Instead of guessing at structure or copying someone else’s model, this book shows you how to expose hidden dependencies, identify genuine user needs, and make better choices about team design and responsibilities. Through real-world case studies and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate tensions between wants, needs, and feasibility, create clarity of purpose, and build teams that deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re a leader, product manager, architect, or change agent, this book equips you to turn complexity into clarity and enable teams to flow faster—aligned around what matters.

Learn to build products businesses buy. Follow the process used by thousands of entrepreneurs and quickly get from idea to product-market fit in B2B.

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

GitOps has caused quite some fuss on Twitter and KubeCon, and still continues to do so. This book aggregates the essence of GitOps to help clear up the confusion. This book answers the following questions:What is GitOps?Why should I use GitOps?How does GitOps work?How to get started with GitOps on Kubernetes?What's the Future of GitOps?

Have software development going on? Think it's a bit slow to take concept to cash? This book is for you - work with the whole team to tweak your dev/delivery to be higher throughput with less defects

This practical guide explains how to implement the five pillars of 5S, develop effective workplace standards, build a culture of continuous improvement, and create efficient, well-organized work environments that support long-term Lean success.

Toyota should have named it the Thinking Production System because the main purpose was to encourage people to think, and people are the most important part of the system.

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.

Hoshin Kanri wird seit Jahrzehnten erfolgreich von Toyota sowie zahlreichen führenden Unternehmen in Japan und den Vereinigten Staaten eingesetzt, um strategische Ziele und Lean-Initiativen nachhaltig umzusetzen.

The secret lies in two simple patterns: Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata.In this concise and practical guide, Dr. Mohamed H. Soliman breaks down Toyota’s habit-building system for daily progress and leadership development.

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

Written by Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman, a Lean expert and professor with decades of academic, professional, and real-world experience, this guide blends proven financial strategies with practical tools to help you transform your financial future.

In this practical guide, Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman, author of Toyota Production System Concepts: SMED – How to Do a Quick Changeover and Heijunka: The Leveling Art of the Japanese Auto Industry, distills decades of industrial engineering and Lean transformation experience into actionable insights. You'll learn how: