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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The next generation of productivity tools won't simply help people work faster. They will help them work differently. Artificial intelligence is changing how software is designed, built, and used. Tasks that once required multiple applications, manual processes, and constant human intervention...

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...

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 ...

Building digital products is not just about following Scrum ceremonies—it’s about delivering real value in fast-moving, uncertain environments. Scrum Delivery for Digital Products focuses on how Scrum actually works when applied to modern software, platforms, and digital services. This book...

Stop freezing up in system design interviews and start thinking like a senior engineer. Most system design resources are terrible—either too abstract to be useful or so deeply buried in theory that you finish them and still don't know what to actually do at the whiteboard. System Design for Beginners: The Lazy Person's Guide to APIs, Databases, Caching, CDNs, Load Balancing & Production Infrastructure completely changes that. Written by veteran Senior Software Architect John Cutts, this practical guide cuts through the academic fluff to give you the clear, battle-tested mental frameworks ...

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 ...

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.

Tired of AI tutorials that leave you more confused than when you started? Sick of copy-pasting code that crashes the moment things get real? Wondering how everyone else seems to be building and deploying AI agents while you're still stuck on theory? Most beginners get buried in fragmented, academic content that never reaches deployment. This audiobook cuts through the noise with a direct, step-by-step system that takes you from zero to a working, production-ready AI agent.

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.

RD Accelerated is a revolutionary methodology designed to optimize the design and development process, making it faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. By empowering designers to take full ownership of projects and leveraging AI for rapid content creation, RD Accelerated sets a new standard for delivering high-quality products. Gone are the days of designers being pigeonholed as “just the creative people” or developers being stuck fixing bugs in the back room. In RD Accelerated, designers and creative developers evolve into full-fledged product makers. They don’t just make the ...

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