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In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues.

User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why. 

Unlock the potential of Generative AI with this Large Language Model production-ready playbook for seamless deployment, optimization, and scaling. This hands-on guide takes you beyond theory, offering expert strategies for integrating LLMs into real-world applications using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, PEFT, LoRA, and scalable inference architectures. Whether you're an ML engineer, data scientist, or MLOps practitioner, you’ll gain the technical know-how to operationalize LLMs efficiently, reduce compute costs, and ensure rock-solid reliability in production.

GenAI is fundamentally changing the world of software development like nothing since the internet. Vibe Coding is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking book that shows developers how to embrace this new frontier. Science fiction is now reality. Programmers no longer need to toil over code and syntax. They can now describe what they want and watch it materialize instantly. Welcome to the future—Vibe Coding.

Agentic Software Engineering with Specs Build Reliable Applications with AI Agents, Acceptance Criteria, Test-Driven Workflows, Code Review, and Production Standards AI coding tools can produce code fast, but fast code is not always reliable, secure, maintainable, or ready for production. Are your AI agents touching the wrong files, adding unnecessary complexity, skipping tests, or solving a slightly different problem than the one you asked for? Prompt-only development can feel powerful at first, then quickly turn into rework, messy pull requests, and risky code changes. Solution Agentic ...

**Corrected fourth edition** As some readers noted, there was a problem in the formatting of the third edition. Those are fixed now. Sorry for the trouble. Are you taking on the role of an Agile Product Owner? Looking to learn how to be a great one? Look no further... Thousands of books have been written about Agile software development and Agile project management. In nearly every one of these books, mention is made of the importance of the product owner, and how without this third piece to the puzzle the whole scheme falls apart. In fact, some of the literature will tell you that if you ...

Welcome to the Third Edition of the Technical Program Manager’s Guide to Success. This guide is designed to take you on a complete journey through the world of Technical Program Management from foundational concepts to advanced strategies, and ultimately, to the evolving future of the role. Whether you are just stepping into a TPM role or looking to refine your expertise, this book provides both knowledge and practical tools that you can apply immediately in your career.Here’s what you can expect along the way: Introduction & Foundations Build a clear understanding of the TPM role and ...

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a core discipline of Software Engineering, and the most overlooked. Requirements work is the basis for all other software development disciplines. A requirement failure has a cascading impact on the project. The PMI states that poor requirements management is the main cause of project failure. This book introduces Requirements Engineering from a practical perspective, with exercises and case studies. The content was prepared from the authors' practical experience and industry references such as the PMBOK, the BABOK, and all the content of the IREB CPRE-FL (...

Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.

Master SaaS sales and accelerate recurring revenue in 30 days—even if you’ve never closed a software deal before. Are you tired of generic sales advice that doesn’t translate to SaaS? Struggling to shorten sales cycles, overcome endless objections, or keep churn from killing your quota? Have you tried “plug-and-play” tools or hired star reps, only to watch your pipeline stall? If so, you’re not alone—and you’re in the right place. Most SaaS sales pros crave a repeatable, SaaS-specific playbook to turn demos into deals, boost MRR, and build a sales team that scales. My SaaS ...

Engineering isn’t broken because people stopped caring. It’s broken because product thinking got lost. In a world where shipping is fast but impact is rare, Product Driven offers a new model for engineering leadership. One built on outcomes, not output. If you’ve ever led a software team and wondered why the work feels disconnected, why your best engineers start coasting, or why everything still flows through you no matter how senior your team gets, this book is your roadmap out.

The Concise Reads Management Series gives us some of the important tools in the management tool belt including problem solving, communicating, and building a team. The guides are concise on purpose and should take you no more than an hour or so to read but the principles within them take weeks and months to master. These are essential principles to find success as a manager or leader and therefore it is important that you absorb them and turn them into habits. Agile Software Development: It wasn't until 2001 when seventeen software developers met at the Snowbird resort in Utah and put ...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS Do you have a great app idea but no coding skills? ‘How to Make an App Business’ contains no get-rich-quick talk, but just exactly what you need to go from idea to app business. ‘How to Make an App Business’ guides you all the way from idea to launching your app and making a business out of it. The book covers proven and essential steps to build a killer app, get your app off the ramp with solid marketing, and make a viable business. From this book you will learn how to: Build and test early prototypes before starting programming ...

Game development isn't just about ideas and creativity. It's about survival. It's about turning your vision into a product that retains, monetizes, and scales—without burning out your team or going broke. The Game Product Management Handbook gives you the real-world systems, mental models, and growth frameworks used inside studios that ship and scale. No fluff. No theory. Just tactics forged through 16 years of painful pivots, missed payrolls, and unexpected wins.

This program is read by the author. An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board...

Every engineer who has shipped a working AI demo knows the feeling. The chatbot runs cleanly on handpicked test data, the team celebrates, and someone posts a screenshot with fire emojis. Then Monday arrives — real users, real traffic, inputs that look nothing like the weekend test cases. Latency spikes. Token costs compound unexpectedly. Hallucinated answers reach paying customers. Logs reveal nothing useful when failures occur. There is no reliable signal that any change — a prompt tweak, a model swap, a chunk-size adjustment — actually made things better or worse. The gap between a...

In Final Cut Pro For Beginners, award-winning video editor and post-production educator Irene Bolton condenses over a decade of industry experience into a practical, hands-on guide designed for the absolute beginner. Published by Frameline Press, this first-edition guide is completely updated for the latest macOS and Final Cut Pro features, making it your ultimate roadmap from raw import to final export. Whether you are a YouTuber outgrowing iMovie, a wedding videographer looking to streamline a chaotic workflow, or an aspiring filmmaker working on a shoestring budget, this book gets the ...

Ever wondered what It takes to transform an early-stage technology startup or nascent organization into an effective software product enterprise? The kind that attracts significant market traction, investment, and ultimately, valuation? It’s not all about genius or luck, but rather, focused execution of good practices over time. The trick is to iterate pragmatically on a path that continuously builds value and results while avoiding costly distractions. If you’re a technology or product leader in one of these firms, or considering a move into the startup world, you’ll find this book ...

Use this book as your guide to becoming a Product Manager and landing your first Product Management role! This book will provide an actionable roadmap for those who aspire to a career in the rewarding world of Product Management. Product Management is an impactful role that encourages creativity, collaboration, deep learning, and autonomy. With dedication and perseverance, you can develop the skills necessary to become an exceptional product manager. In this book you will learn more about what this role entails, about how to hone skills required, and most importantly, how to apply these ...

Agentic Programming with AI Agents: A Practical Software Engineering Guide to Tool-Calling Agents, Planning Systems, Memory, Evaluation, Security, and Production Deployment AI agents are no longer experimental demos. Developers, engineers, and technical teams now need agents that can call tools, follow plans, manage context, remember useful information, evaluate outputs, handle failures, and run safely in production. But building reliable AI agents is not as simple as connecting an LLM to an API. Are your prototypes impressive but fragile? Do your agents break when workflows get longer, ...