Length11h 2m
About this audiobook
He didn’t fight for his marriage. He scoped it.
When his wife asks for a separation, Joel Finch does what he’s always done: he opens a new doc, defines the problem, and builds a sprint. He will optimize his way back to love—or at least to an acceptable retention rate.
The terrifying part? It works. Discovery interviews spark real conversation. Retrospectives unearth buried truths. For a few months, by every measurable metric, the marriage is better. Simone is softer. Joel is almost present. The roadmap is on track.
Then she finds the notebook.
Wickedly funny and quietly devastating, this novel skewers the productivity-obsessed, framework-addicted culture that has taught an entire generation to treat human beings like unsolved tickets in a backlog. But beneath the satire lives a genuinely urgent question: if the attention was real, the effort was real, and the results were real—does it matter that love was the deliverable?
Audiobook details
GenreHumor
Length11 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
16Chapter 14: Competing Priorities
2Acknowledgments
17Chapter 15: Strategic Pivot
3Chapter 1: Sprint Zero
18Chapter 16: Kill Criteria
4Chapter 2: Problem Statement
19Chapter 17: Edge Case
5Chapter 3: Prior Art
20Chapter 18: The Discovery
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6Chapter 4: The Proposal
21Chapter 19: Incident Report
7Chapter 5: Kickoff
22Chapter 20: Root Cause Analysis
8Chapter 6: Week One Metrics
23Chapter 21: Production Failure
9Chapter 7: Discovery
24Chapter 22: The Retrospective
10Chapter 8: Technical Debt
25Chapter 23: Kill Criteria: Self
11Chapter 9: The Roadmap
26Chapter 24: Feature Freeze
12Chapter 10: Stakeholder Alignment
27Chapter 25: What Ships
13Chapter 11: Version B
28Character Guide
14Chapter 12: User Testing
29References & Bibliography
15Chapter 13: Positive Signal
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