Books
Unf*ck Your Agile: Fixing broken systems and navigating chaos
by Mike Fisher
This book is a straight-talking, eye-opening guide for leaders, coaches, and change agents who are tired of the Agile theater, buzzwords, and framework wars that waste time and stall progress.
This book doesn’t teach you how to “do Agile.” It shows you why Agile keeps failing inside your organization—and what to do about it. You’ll learn how to spot the real blockers to agility: broken systems, bloated hierarchies, outdated governance, leadership dysfunction, and a refusal to break dependencies. It’s a call to arms for fixing the root causes, not just symptoms.
Inside, you’ll get a blend of brutally honest insights, actionable strategies, and real-world patterns for driving transformation where it matters—from team to portfolio to enterprise. You’ll learn how to lead through chaos, coach with courage, and build the kind of high-trust, high-impact environment where real agility can take hold.
Whether you’re navigating legacy systems, resistance from leadership, or cultural inertia, this book will help you cut through the noise, reclaim clarity, and finally make Agile work the way it was intended.
Written by Mike Fisher, a globally recognized transformation executive and the creator of the Formula of Evidential Elements of Agility®, and LAD® (Lean Agile Delivery) this book distills decades of real-world experience into a no-fluff, high-impact playbook for modern enterprise change.
No fluff. No dogma. Just a battle-tested guide to unf*cking your Agile.
Killer Code: When bugs become body bags—the deadly consequences of software failure
by Mike Fisher
This book is not a metaphor. It’s a warning. It’s a call to arms. It’s a reckoning.
We live in a world where software controls airplanes, hospitals, cars, weapons, insulin pumps, and more. Code is everywhere. It decides who lives, who dies, and how fast. But here's the problem: the industry still treats software like it’s disposable. Rushed. Half-tested. Shipped fast and fixed later. And in most places, that’s just business as usual.
Until it isn’t.
Until autopilot misfires and a family doesn’t come home.
Until a radiation machine overdoses a patient.
Until a jet nosedives into the ground because a sensor glitched.
Until the code we wrote becomes the reason someone ends up in a body bag.
Killer Code is about those stories—the ones that keep software engineers up at night and should terrify the ones who sleep soundly. This book is not about blaming individuals. It’s about exposing the systems, shortcuts, and cultural blind spots that allow lethal software to make it into the real world. It’s about industries that cut corners, leadership that prioritizes velocity over validation, and teams that were never taught how high the stakes really are.
But it’s also about redemption.
About building modern software with quality baked in—not bolted on at the end.
About engineering with humility, with accountability, and with a damn sense of responsibility.
About writing code like lives depend on it—because they do.
If you write code, manage teams, lead tech strategy, or approve releases, this book is for you.
You may never work on safety-critical systems. But if you think that means your code can’t hurt someone—you haven’t looked hard enough.
This is Killer Code. Let’s get to work.
Because quality isn’t optional when lives are on the line.