Software Delivery in Small Batches

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Recommend Reading 📘 The New Economics by Dr. Deming 📘 The High-Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear 📘 The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge 📘 The Toyota Way by Jeffery Liker 📘 The Toyota Kata by Mike Rother 📘 The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten 📘 Making Work Visible by Dominica de Grandis 📘 Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley 📘 The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim...

Free Resources NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams Toyota Kata Pocket Guide The Flow Collective Links Small Batches #1: The DevOps Handbook Small Batches #70: Deployment Pipelines Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge - Part One Value Stream Mapping by Karen Martin and Mike Osterling ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Recommend Reading 📘 The New Economics by Dr. Deming 📘 The High-Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear 📘 The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge 📘 The Toyota Way by Jeffery Liker 📘 The Toyota Kata by Mike Rother 📘 The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten 📘 Making Work Visible by Dominica de Grandis 📘 Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley 📘 The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim...

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Explore the tip of scientific thinking, lean, and kaizen with Dr. Deming's PDCA loop. Free Resources NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams Toyota Kata Pocket Guide The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide Links Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming wi...

Links Small Batches #22: Boundaries with Derek Comartin Small Batches #38: Dev Environments with Bryan Finster ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Free Resources NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams Toyota Kata Pocket Guide The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide Links Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website Profound Podcast Small Batches #49: Dr. Deming on Variation Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis ★ Support t...

How to use the 5S method plus the PFEP (Plan for Every Part) to reach the target condition of stable production operations. Free Resources NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams Toyota Kata Pocket Guide The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide Links Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website Small...

Free Resources NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams Toyota Kata Pocket Guide The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide Links Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book) The Fifth Discipline Small Batches #51: The System of Profound Knowledge with John Willis ★...

This one comes from the episode jar. Canary deploys use deploy an experimental change prior to a larger change. If the canary change is successful, then proceed as normal. Otherwise, back off and readjust. Free Resources NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams Toyota Kata Pocket Guide The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide L...

A look into the ideas of empiricism, iteration, and incrementalism applied to software engineering. These are the code ideas of Dave Farley's 2022 book "Modern Software Engineering". Learn More 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction . 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence 📘 Modern Software Engineering 📘 The Pragmatic Programmer ☕️ Small Batches #17: Continuous Delivery wi...

Adam presents "The Four Types of Problems" by Art Smalley. The types are troubleshooting, gap from standard, target condition, and open-ended. Learn More 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction . 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence ☕️ Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn 📘 The Four Types of Problems 📘 The Toyota Kata ★ Support this p...

Let's go back in time to linger on the works of the master thinkers. This episode presents Kent Beck's book "Extreme Programming Explained". I'm hard-pressed to find anything that's irrelevant or that I disagree with. Links Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley Extreme Programming at Pivotal ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam presents a summary of Donald Reinertsen's 2009 book. Tl;DR: understand the price of work, optimize for flow through queues, use WIP constraints, reduce batch sizes, and prefer decentralization. Learn More 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction . 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence ☕️ Small Batches #59 : Time Thieves ☕️ Small Batches #58 : Queuing Theory 📘 Principle...

Adam presents the "five time thieves" described in Dominica DeGrandis' book Making Work Visible. The thieves are: too much WIP (work-in-progress), unknown dependencies, conflicting priorities, neglected work, and (the most annoying of the bunch) interrupts. Learn More ☕️ Small Batches #60 : Principles of Product Development Flow ☕️ Small Batches #58 : Queuing Theory 📘 Principles of Product Deve...

Adam presents applying the mathematics behind queueing theory to software delivery. Also, an announcement! Links NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction . ☕️ Small Batches #59 : Time Thieves ☕️ Small Batches #60 : Principles of Product Development Flow 📘 Principles of Product Development Flow 📘 Making Work Visible ★ Support this podcast on Patreo...

Entries include: Software Delivery KPIs Lead Time Deployment Frequency MTTR (Mean-time-to-resolve) Change Failure Rate Jidoka Kaizen Type 3 Problems: target-condition Subscribe to this podcast and join the small batches newsletter to keep up with the project. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The third of a three-part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira. Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group. Adam and Steve come back to the fractal nature of flow, value streams, and where to start with improving flow. Do you like this topic? Come join Steve a...

The second of a three part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira. Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group. Steve goes deeper into flow engineering and the four maps: outcome, value streams, dependencies, and capabilities. Do you like this topic? Come join St...

The first of a three part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira. Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group. Steve recounts his career and how he became so passionate about business value and how it flows across organization. Part one wraps with an introduction...

Adam revists the ideas that created Toyota after learning from The High Velocity Edge and The New Economics. Jeffery Liker's "The Toyota Way" presents 14 principles grouped into four categories: Philosophy, Process, People, and Problem Solving. Adam gives a summary of each and how they relate to past material covered on the podcast. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This is the third episode in a three-part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis. Adam and John dial in on one of the core tenets of the System of Profound knowledge: understanding variation. They discuss special and common cause variation and how to deal with each. Also, why have most people not heard of Deming when he has such an impact on lean theory? John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOp...

The second episode is a three-part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis. Adam and John focus on Deming's second book The New Economics which introduces the system of profound knowledge. This is why John's podcast is named "Profound". Nice reference.  John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming. The Deming Rabbit Hole:...

This is the first of a three-part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis. Adam and John Willis introduce Dr. Deming through his books Out of the Crisis , The New Economics , and impact on lean theory over the course of a multi-decade career. John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming. The Deming Rabbit Hole: ☕️ Small B...