Books

The practical guide to AI-first teamwork. Includes access to the 'CollabAI AI companion' that helps you run your first session immediately. Most teams have fast individuals—but a slow system. AI can change that. CollabAI is the manual for teams who want to stop waiting and start flowing. It moves beyond "chatting with a bot" to a new collaborative rhythm where humans and AI build, test, and decide together in real time. Inside, you’ll discover:The Framework: How to run CollabAI sessions that compress weeks of work into hours.The Science: Why "System 2 Rituals" and psychological safety are the hard requirements for speed.The Scale: How to apply Joe Justice’s principles (Justice Boards & DSM) to run entire organizations without managers.The Future: How to transition safely to Agentic AI workflows using the Agion Pattern.Start optimizing the flow.

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.

If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. They treat it as another checkbox like "Web 2.0" was a few years ago or a mobile app was most recently. In fact, there's an entire "API-first" movement in development circles that most people don't understand or even realize why..

Boken Grymma Workshops är 60 sidor med våra samlade erfarenheter om hur vi får till våra workshops som under många år fått fantastiska utlåtanden.Vi berättar hur vi tänker kring workshops, hur vi planerar, och vad vi fokuserar på före, under och efter en workshop.

Learn more about the what, why and how of self-organisation by looking at more than 40 companies from various industries and countries.

A personalized guide to developing the qualities that make a successful technical leader, with practical steps for developing those qualities.

Do you aspire to become a truly Badass Agile Coach? A coach with a mission of professionalism, craft, passion, accountability, and expertise that you need to bring to bear in service of your clients? Then Extraordinary Badass Agile Coaching will be your trusted guide to meet (and exceed) that mission.

Need help getting your Team started? Want to do "just enough" upfront work before starting the first Sprint? Confused how to gather, share and create knowledge? Let me share some ideas that work.

Unlock the secrets of high-performing tech organizations with 'All Hands on Tech.' Drawing from 40+ years of experience across corporate giants and digital-native companies, this guide offers battle-tested strategies to transform your software development process, boost innovation, and deliver real business value at scale. Learn how to:• Align your tech strategy with business goals• Structure teams for maximum impact and innovation• Implement agile and DevOps practices at scale• Foster a culture that attracts and retains top talent• Deliver value consistently and rapidly Whether you're a CTO, engineering manager, or aspiring tech leader, you'll find actionable insights to transform your organization. This Minimum Viable Book (MVB) is a work in progress, inviting community input to shape its evolution into an indispensable resource for tech leadership.

Unlock the secrets of high-performing tech organizations with 'All Hands on Tech.' Drawing from 40+ years of experience across corporate giants and digital-native companies, this guide offers battle-tested strategies to transform your software development process, boost innovation, and deliver real business value at scale. Learn how to:• Align your tech strategy with business goals• Structure teams for maximum impact and innovation• Implement agile and DevOps practices at scale• Foster a culture that attracts and retains top talent• Deliver value consistently and rapidly Whether you're a CTO, engineering manager, or aspiring tech leader, you'll find actionable insights to transform your organization. This Minimum Viable Book (MVB) is a work in progress, inviting community input to shape its evolution into an indispensable resource for tech leadership.

You’ve facilitated your 50th retrospective. The same issues surface. The same action items are created. Nothing changes. Features marked "done" sit in queues for months. You’re doing your job perfectly—and it’s making no difference.What if the problem isn’t your facilitation skills? What if the Scrum Master role itself is trapped in an outdated model?

This book helps quiet professionals speak up without forcing a louder personality. You’ll learn practical ways to stay calm, think clearly, and say what you mean in meetings, discussions, and tense moments at work.

Change does not fail because of resistance. It fails because people lose clarity and ownership. Spiral Up gives you a simple framework to restore purpose, learning, and momentum at every level.

Tired of teamwork advice that sounds good on posters but doesn’t help in real meetings? TeamBOK: Team Body Of Knowledge distills 100 research-informed, field-tested lessons that show you how real teams work: how to handle conflict, design roles, run better meetings, and make diversity an asset instead of a source of friction. Whether you’re a developer, manager, coach, or teammate in any field, you’ll find short, actionable ideas you can read in minutes and apply in your team the same week.

"Empowering Others: A Guide to Servant Leadership for Technology Teams" explores servant leadership—the practice of putting others first. When applied, the result is happier, more productive teams. You’ll gain skills to get the best out of your working life.