Books

This is the book I wanted to read after I had become a software team leader. This is also a book I wrote for myself to avoid making mistakes I had already made.

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..

Do you want to be a (better) manager? Whether your answer is “yes,” or “no,” or “I don’t know,” this book is for you. If you don’t know, the book should help you decide—or help you do the right things while you postpone your decision. If your answer is “yes,” many of the book’s essays are designed to guide you successfully in that direction. And if your answer is “no,” many of the essays will show you how to avoid waking up one day to discover that somehow you have become a (worse) manager.

Are you a Software Engineer or Developer who wants to know more about those pesky users; or how to decipher what that UX specialist is talking about? Do you need to get more involved in the development of the interface? If so, this high-level overview will help you get started and signpost you to more books, best practices, and standards.

This book covers how to use modern frameworks and tools to get your enterprise application out the door and into the end users hands as fast as possible without jeopardizing quality.

Explore the many facets and styles of leadership with the leaders of the Problem Solving Leadership workshop.

It is essential to understand how we can use Agile approaches and tools to manage and mitigate risk in projects. Find out how in this new book.

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.

What will and must our future global economic and societal framework be? This book makes it clear.

Jerry Weinberg has been observing software development for more than 50 years. Lately, he's been observing the Agile movement, and he's offering an evolving set of impressions of where it came from, where it is now, and where it's going.

Learn how to manage agile adoption initiatives using the Lean Change method. The Lean Change method extends the Kotter change management lifecycle with high feedback, iterative planning practices based on validated learning and other techniques taken from Lean Startup.