{"product_id":"after-agile-leading-teams-when-execution-is-cheap-and-judgment-is-scarce-9798257070167","title":"After Agile: Leading Teams When Execution Is Cheap and Judgment Is Scarce","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): B. Torkian\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Decision Making \u0026amp; Problem Solving\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfter Agile\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHAT YOU WILL LEARN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Agile ceremonies have become structurally Diminishing to the intelligence AI-era work depends on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to replace sprint-and-story decomposition with specification-first development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the shape of your team - not the size - is the ceiling on what it can build\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to allocate the rarest resources in your organization: judgment, clarity, and ambition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat to stop hiring for as the cost structure of execution collapses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to scope ambitious projects when the old \"wishlist\" is the real roadmap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eDRAWN FROM REAL ENTERPRISE AI WORK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHO THIS BOOK IS FOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounders, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, product leaders, senior engineers, and engineering managers who sense the old playbook is no longer enough. Readers of \u003ci\u003eAccelerate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeam Topologies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Phoenix Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStaff Engineer\u003c\/i\u003e, and Liz Wiseman's \u003ci\u003eMultipliers\u003c\/i\u003e will recognize the territory - and find it sharper, shorter, and more specific about what the AI era actually changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen execution gets cheaper, judgment becomes everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891936313495,"sku":"9798257070167","price":1677.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798257070167.webp?v=1781185200","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/after-agile-leading-teams-when-execution-is-cheap-and-judgment-is-scarce-9798257070167","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}