Books

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.

Implementing ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is easier with the right guide. Packed with practical steps, ready-to-use templates and real-world examples, this book helps you build, manage and certify an effective Information Security Management System with confidence.

Evaluation Engineering for AI Systems is a practical guide to building reliable AI evaluations for production. Learn how to measure performance, compare models, detect regressions and create evaluation pipelines using real-world examples, modern Python and proven industry practices.

AI-generated code can look flawless while hiding invented APIs, security gaps and subtle logic errors. This practical guide shows you how to build production-ready analyzers that catch what tests miss, from taint tracking and symbolic execution to custom rules for CI/CD and IDEs.

Holistic testing is a comprehensive term to encompass testing throughout the development cycle from the start of an idea, through to customer interaction with a delivered feature. All members of a delivery team think about testing and quality from the beginning and throughout the cycle.  This book is about the Holistic Testing Model and how to apply it to develop a quality and testing strategy for the whole team. If you care about quality – no matter what your specialty or role in your organization is – we think you’ll find it helpful. UI/UX designers, product owners, programmers, testers, database experts, business analysts, site reliability and platform engineers, and more – this model will guide you as you collaborate to continually improve your process and product. 

This book breaks down the logic, design, and practical use of the Kanban system, helping you identify waste, balance supply with demand, and drive continuous improvement across your operations.

Hoe je beter kunt worden in het leren van fouten — het opbouwen van een cultuur waarin geleerd wordt van fouten binnen je team of organisatie.

Ever seen a “game-changing” corporate initiative kick off with fanfare, only to tangle employees in a baffling array of buzzwords, then gradually stagnate, and eventually fade away into obscurity—no change, no improvement, no lessons learned? The Incredible Story of Deft (2nd ed.) lays bare the dirty secret tanking most change efforts: overhyped frameworks, mental models, and “miracle cure” certifications that are as ill-timed as they are ultimately useless—except for adorning a CV and fluffing CVs and propping up pretenders who swear they’ve cracked how work “should” be done through allegedly valuable, rare, and inimitable knowledge with a mystical air. Marvel, rage, scoff, laugh (or cry, or both) by observing the interactions of fun characters at a 2-day workshop that aims to train the employees of the fictional Betovlax Corporation on the perils of Deft.

Dieser praktischer Leitfaden zeigt Ihnen, wie langjährig gewachsene Softwaresysteme effektiv analysiert und bewertet werden können.

Learn how to stop managing bugs and start focusing on quality!

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

Modern software delivery demands more than fast pipelines. It requires systems built for reliability, security and scale. This book shows how to design and run CI/CD as a production platform, with practical patterns, real world examples and proven strategies that help teams deliver software with confidence.

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:

This is your complete guide to building rhythmic, waste-free production cells that deliver quality at speed—just in time.