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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.

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.

This book describes 15 practical applications of Human Complexity in the context of software and digital products development. And suggests a new strategy for introducing Complexity thinking to your team and your organisation. The book is for leaders, managers, facilitators, change agents (Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches), and team members.

Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology of Computer Programming endures as a penetrating analysis of the intelligence, skill, teamwork, and problem-solving power of the computer programmer.

lego4scrum - eine der interaktivsten Methoden, um ein agiles Mindset und das Scrum Framework in Aktion zu demonstrieren. Dieses Buch fasst jahrelange Experimente und hunderte von lego4scrum-Workshops zusammen. Es wird Dir ermöglichen, Scrum auf eine völlig neue, frische und unterhaltsame Weise zu unterrichten. Dies ist die deutsche Ausgabe.

Stretch your thinking! Children are great assets in society with marvelous transformational power. Have mutual leadership with children, including your own inner child. Start with others in your immediate neighborhood as a first step in building up a happier world together!

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.

Discover how Java developers can contribute to a sustainable future. Written by Java Champions and community experts, this collaborative guide explores practical approaches to sustainable software engineering, from resource-efficient design to mindful architecture, empowering you to reduce your environmental impact while building better systems.

After years of remote work, you would think we'd all be great at it. But many of us are still struggling with terrible online meetings and workshops. This book provides simple tools to improve your everyday meetings, and introduces the facilitation skills you need to resolve tough conflicts and design great online workshops.

You can build software with an AI coding agent. A shop owner saw your app and asked: "Can you make one for me? I will pay." You said yes — and then the quiet worry arrived. What if the scope grows? What if the code breaks? What if the client asks something you cannot answer? This book is the answer to that worry: a professional, repeatable way to deliver AI-built software to paying clients. Not hype about getting rich. Not a prototype tutorial. The real work — finding suitable jobs honestly, scoping them clearly, building in small checked steps, verifying quality and security, handing over cleanly, and supporting the result for years.

AI made implementation cheap and shared understanding scarce. This is the book about how teams should adapt the process.

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.