After Agile: Leading Teams When Execution Is Cheap and Judgment Is Scarce

Author:   B Torkian, PhD
Publisher:   Independently Published
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9798257070167


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 May 2026
Format:   Paperback
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After Agile: Leading Teams When Execution Is Cheap and Judgment Is Scarce


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A new leadership playbook for the AI era - from a practitioner who has built the systems the rest of the industry is still trying to understand.For three decades, software leadership ran on one assumption: building was expensive, and execution was the bottleneck. AI changed that in twelve months. The scarcest resource is no longer speed. It is judgment - knowing what to build, what to ignore, how to lead through ambiguity, and how to make decisions that hold up in a world where intelligent tools can generate output but cannot replace responsibility. In After Agile, B. Torkian explains what leadership actually looks like when the old constraints stop binding, and why most organizations are still running an operating model that no longer matches their cost structure. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Why Agile ceremonies have become structurally Diminishing to the intelligence AI-era work depends on How to replace sprint-and-story decomposition with specification-first development Why the shape of your team - not the size - is the ceiling on what it can build How to allocate the rarest resources in your organization: judgment, clarity, and ambition What to stop hiring for as the cost structure of execution collapses How to scope ambitious projects when the old ""wishlist"" is the real roadmap DRAWN FROM REAL ENTERPRISE AI WORKThis is not a theory book. It is a field report from production systems the author built and led - a retrieval-augmented advising system under institutional audit, a multi-agent admissions pipeline under FERPA compliance, and AI features embedded in an industrial product customers were already paying for. Each case chapter shows what worked, what almost killed the system, and what leadership moves made the difference. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORFounders, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, product leaders, senior engineers, and engineering managers who sense the old playbook is no longer enough. Readers of Accelerate, Team Topologies, The Phoenix Project, Staff Engineer, and Liz Wiseman's Multipliers will recognize the territory - and find it sharper, shorter, and more specific about what the AI era actually changes. When execution gets cheaper, judgment becomes everything.

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Author:   B Torkian, PhD
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9798257070167


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 May 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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