As part of my professional work (consulting in management, quality, process models, and software engineering), I have published a number of books.
My latest book, co-authored with Rajesh Naik, is Aligning Ferret: How an Organization Meets Extraordinary Challenges.
It is a business novel, centered around concepts of strategy, alignment, and performance management.
The story uses a crisis in a fictional organization to explore concepts of strategy and performance management systems for organization-wide alignment. What made it fun to write was creating and depicting a very normal ‘hero’ who faces extraordinary challenges at work even as he struggles for that ever-problematic work-and-home-life balance. No stodgy, preachy stuff here. I’m thrilled to see the book getting good reviews.
This book was fun to write, and hopefully, it is fun to read, too. Have a look!
Here’s a list of my other published books (so far), all co-authored with Rajesh Naik.
Currently available books:
- SQL for professionals, Tata McGraw-Hill. This is a cute little book that’s still selling after 16 years! It is currently in its sixteenth reprint. Read more about it, or visit the publisher’s page for it.
- Software Requirements and Estimation, Tata McGraw-Hill. This one even has a Chinese edition. It is currently on its eleventh reprint. You can read more about it here. See the publisher’s page for it.
- ISO 9001: 2000 for Software Organizations, Tata McGraw-Hill. Now available in softcover. Read about it here or visit the publisher’s page .
Books now obsolete/ out-of-print:
- What Every Manager Should Know About Computers, Tata McGraw-Hill. This one did pretty well for itself, but is now discontinued. Just in case you are curious, here’s more about it.
- Systems Analysis and Design, Wheeler Publishing, then taken over by S Chand. We believe it no longer exists. Here’s more on it.
- Windows 3.1, Wheeler Publishing. The book is obviously obsolete
