Software Product Development

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a powerful force shaping how modern software is designed, built, and delivered. AI Product Development is a comprehensive and practical guide for product managers, engineers, data scientists, and tech leaders who are committed to creating intelligent products that solve real-world problems at scale.

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.

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 ...

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.

The discourse surrounding quantum computing is often dominated by the physics of the subatomic world or the complex mathematics of abstract vector spaces. While these foundations are essential, they have inadvertently created a barrier, positioning the field as an esoteric science rather than an accessible engineering discipline. This book, "The Quantum Software Development Lifecycle: From Qubits to Production," is built on a philosophy designed to dismantle that barrier. Philosophy: Pragmatic Engineering for an Emerging Technology The core philosophy of "The Quantum Software Development ...

Build a Real AI-Powered SaaS Product. Ship It. Launch It. From Zero. This is not a sanitized tutorial where everything works on the first try. This is a documented real-world build — every decision, every error, every workaround, and every fix, exactly as it happened. Follow the complete development of AI Engineering Copilot, a fully functional SaaS platform for electrical contractors powered by Groq AI and Next.js 15 — built from idea to live production URL in a single session. You will build: A secure multi-user app with email auth and Row Level Security • An AI proposal generator ...

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 ...

Build a Real AI Agent. Deploy It. Monetize It. Most AI books explain concepts. This book shows you how to build a revenue-generating AI agent from start to finish — and turn it into a real SaaS product. Building a Revenue-Generating AI Agent is a complete implementation guide for developers, engineers, and founders who want more than theory. Inside, you’ll design, build, deploy, and monetize a production-ready AI system using modern architecture patterns. You won’t just build a chatbot. You will build: A structured AI agent architecture A document ingestion pipeline A chunking and ...

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...

Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD) is an emerging approach to digital product management for both business people and engineers. It emphasizes rigorous, continuous experimentation as a way to both minimize waste and focus teams’ creative capabilities in directions that drive growth and innovation.

Most technology organizations don’t have a talent problem. They have a backlog problem. In The Backlog Illusion, Steve Taplin and Chris Horvat of Sonatafy Technology reveal why modern software teams can look highly productive while the actual delivery grinds to a halt. Beneath the surface lies a systemic failure: a backlog that has quietly evolved from a planning tool into a source of confusion, wasted effort, and missed opportunity. The Backlog Illusion breaks down why your backlog is a living reflection of every unclear decision, competing priority, and organizational compromise. Left ...

You have a limited amount of time to create software, especially when you’re given a deadline, self-imposed or not. You’ll want to make sure that the software you build is at least decent but more importantly, on time. How do you balance quality with time? This audiobook dives into these very important topics. After listening to Scrum Essentials, you will know about scrum roles, sprints, scrum artifacts, and much more.

Harness the potent power of Kanban and Scrum with this bundle and take your project-management skills to the next level.

AI Agent Development Designing, Building, Deploying & Scaling Intelligent AI Systems AI is moving beyond chatbots. The next generation of intelligent systems is built around AI agents—software components that can reason, use tools, maintain memory, and operate reliably inside real-world applications. AI Agent Development is a practical, engineering-focused guide for developers and technical professionals who want to design and deploy production-grade AI agents—not demos or experiments. This book treats AI agents as software systems, emphasizing architecture, control, safety, and long-...

Execute Your Tech Idea applies to all technology projects, including apps, portals, Software as a Service, software tools, smart devices, the Internet of Things, and many more.

Your best side project idea is dying in a GitHub repo right now. You bought the domain. You starred the frameworks. You told yourself you'd start "this weekend." But weekends keep passing, and the repo stays empty. Ship It Saturday is the cure for planning paralysis. This book gives you a step-by-step, time-blocked framework to go from zero to a live, revenue-capable product in a single weekend — Friday night to Sunday evening. What You'll Learn Friday night: Validate your idea in 30 minutes and choose your tech stack without overthinking Saturday morning: Build your core feature with AI-...

An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. 'If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work in a hotbed of innovation, you’ll enjoy this inside view of life at Apple. Ken Kocienda pioneered the iPhone keyboard, and this book gives a play-by-play...

One-page checklists for software and knowledge management Product Managers help ensure knowledge sharing between people, businesses, and devices is efficient and accurate. Follow this simple, proven New Product Development process to ensure a consistent approach to creating knowledge-based software solutions.