{"product_id":"9798868831881","title":"The On-Time Playbook An Enterprise Guide to Fast and Reliable Software Delivery","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe On-Time Playbook\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAn Enterprise Guide to Fast and Reliable Software Delivery\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRoshan Kumar\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eComputers \/ Software Development \u0026amp; Engineering \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a field-tested guide to delivering software projects with speed, clarity, and dependability. Part I walks readers through the full delivery lifecycle from onboarding and requirements to research, design, coding, testing, UAT, and launch equipping teams with practical toolkits, stop-rules, and frameworks that accelerate delivery while avoiding common pitfalls. Each chapter blends real-world stories, playbooks, and visual aids to help teams avoid wasted effort and move fast without sacrificing quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart II focuses on the human layer collaboration, prioritization, risk management, and communication, while Part III instils compounding habits like adaptive tracking, structured learning, and outcome-driven measurement. Together, these practices form a system for building credibility through dependable delivery. More than theory, this book offers pragmatic tools engineers, PMs, and leaders can apply immediately to ship features on time, every time and in doing so, build reputations as trusted professionals who deliver impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYou Will: \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLearn to manage the complete software delivery lifecycle—from onboarding to launch—using proven playbooks, checklists, and frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUnderstand to to balance speed, quality, and sustainability by mastering collaboration, prioritization, risk management, and communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBuild credibility and momentum in your career by consistently delivering trusted, on-time software releases.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is for:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEnterprise architects, software architects and project managers \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoshan Kumar\u003c\/strong\u003e is an engineering leader with over 13 years of experience delivering enterprise software and leading engineering teams across some of the world's most demanding technology organizations. Over more than a decade at Amazon, he grew from a full-stack software engineer to an Engineering Manager, working across Last Mile Technologies and Selling Partner Financial Tech. Today, he is an Engineering Manager at Adobe, where he leads teams building large-scale marketing technology platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLike many engineers early in his career, Roshan often felt that everyone around him was exceptionally brilliant and that he somehow didn't belong. Yet watching incredibly talented teams still miss deadlines made him question whether brilliance alone explained dependable software delivery.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThat realization quietly shaped the rest of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years, every successful launch, every painful delivery, every difficult postmortem, every design review, and every organizational challenge became another opportunity to understand why some teams consistently kept their commitments while others didn't. Gradually, he discovered that the teams who consistently delivered weren't necessarily the most brilliant. They were the ones that executed with discipline, made thoughtful technical decisions, aligned around a shared purpose, managed risks deliberately, and continuously learned from every delivery.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThose experiences shaped one belief that runs throughout this book: in software delivery, dependability beats brilliance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRather than simply moving on after each project, Roshan carried its lessons into the next one. Over time, those experiences evolved into practical playbooks, decision frameworks, and ways of thinking that helped teams replace reactive firefighting with dependable execution.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe On-Time Playbook \u003c\/strong\u003eis the culmination of that journey. Roshan wrote it so others wouldn't have to spend more than a decade learning the lessons he wishes someone had taught him much earlier in his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eApress\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eApress\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798868831881\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51562259972236,"sku":"9798868831881","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798868831881","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}