Software Product

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.

Turn Claude into an intelligent layer across your software development workflow. Claude for Developers is a practical guide to using Claude throughout the software development lifecycle—from requirements and architecture to implementation, testing, debugging, code review, automation, and deployment. Move beyond isolated coding prompts and learn how to build repeatable, AI-assisted development workflows around your existing tools, codebases, APIs, Git workflows, and engineering processes. Inside, you’ll explore: • Requirements analysis and technical planning • Software architecture ...

**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 ...

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 ...

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.

Why read this book? Do you want to learn how to write, refine and deliver user stories? Are you a Product Owner or Business Analyst who needs to understand this powerful technique? Do you work in an Agile (Scrum or Kanban) software development environment? Do you want to learn how to run refinement sessions and deliver better products? Do you need to be confident that you’re writing and using user stories correctly in order to develop your career? You might have worked with User Stories before or are being asked to look at them for the first time, either way, this book will take you from ...

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 ...

Opening Logic Pro for the first time can feel overwhelming. You are greeted by a blank screen, endless menus, and hundreds of audio settings that make you feel like everyone else was handed a secret studio manual you never got. Somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice whispers that professional music production is only for audio engineers and seasoned musicians. That voice is wrong. Platinum-selling producers only touch a fraction of what Logic Pro offers. You do not need a music theory degree, a thousand-dollar microphone, or an expensive audio interface to make music that translates to...

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 ...

Does your Engineering team talk about Kubernetes, instances, regions, autoscaling, or serverless, leaving you struggling to understand how these decisions impact your product? Cloud infrastructure powers virtually every digital product. It determines how an application runs, what happens when traffic increases, how the system responds to failures, and how much it costs to keep everything running. And many of these decisions directly affect Product Management. Cloud & Infrastructure for Product Managers explains the fundamentals of modern infrastructure from a product perspective, using ...

Most products don’t fail at launch. They fail in the thinking that comes before it. Every year, teams spend months building products nobody needs, launching features nobody finds, and shipping roadmaps nobody trusts. The Art of Building Products is the playbook for doing it differently, written by a product and program leader for everyone who builds: product managers, engineers, designers, founders, and the people who run the work. No theory for theory’s sake. Every chapter opens with a real situation: the context, the numbers that mattered, and why it played out the way it did. Then it...

Do You Know What Gets Tested Before a Feature Goes Live? Can You Tell When a Failed Test Is a Real Problem, Which Bugs Matter Most, or Whether a Release Is Worth the Risk? As a Product Manager, you're expected to make decisions about releases, priorities, and product quality. But when Engineering reports failing tests, QA raises concerns, or critical bugs appear just before launch, how confidently can you assess the situation? Software quality directly affects user experience, product reliability, customer trust, and your team's ability to keep delivering new features. Understanding testing...

Ship faster with coding agents—without handing quality control to a probability distribution. Coding agents can inspect a repository, edit multiple files, run tools, respond to failures, and prepare a change for review. The opportunity is real. So is the gap between an impressive demo and a dependable production workflow. AI Coding Agents in Production gives senior developers, tech leads, engineering managers, and platform teams a provider-neutral operating system for closing that gap. Inside you will learn how to: • choose work with strong, observable feedback; • write task briefs ...

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

GenAI for Software Engineers: Build, Test, Debug, Secure, and Deploy Production-Ready Software with Generative AI Writing code faster with AI is easy. Shipping reliable software with it is not. You may already use generative AI to draft functions, explain unfamiliar code, or suggest fixes. But production engineering demands far more than plausible output. AI-generated changes can introduce hidden defects, weaken architecture, miss authorization rules, expose sensitive data, create unreliable tests, or make broader changes than the task requires. This book is for software engineers, ...

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, ...

AI agents are easy to demonstrate. Reliable agents are engineered. Generative AI agents can retrieve knowledge, call tools, coordinate workflows, and take action across real business systems. But once an agent moves beyond a controlled demonstration, probabilistic behavior, unsafe tool use, prompt injection, hidden state, rising costs, and silent failures become engineering problems—not merely prompting problems. Building Reliable Generative AI Agents gives developers, software architects, engineering leaders, and technical decision-makers a practical, framework-neutral blueprint for ...