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 #17: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley Small Batches #63: Modern Software Engineering Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery

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 with John Willis Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge Lean Lexicon: PDCA Lean Lexicon: A3 Thinking Lean Lexicon: Kaizen Lean Lexicon: Toyota Production System Lean Lexicon: Jidoka

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 #22: Boundaries with Derek Comartin Small Batches #38: Dev Environments with Bryan Finster

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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 Batches #53: The Toyota Way Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.

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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 Links Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website Release It!

A look into the ideas of empiricism, iteration, and incrementalism applied to software engineering. This is the topic of Dave Farley's 2022 book "Modern Software Engineering".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 Modern Software Engineering Small Batches #17: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley Small Batches #61: Extreme Programming Explained The Pragmatic Programmer Continuous Delivery YouTube Channel

Art Smalley's 2019 book "The Four Types of Problems" presents troubleshooting, gap from standard, target condition, and open-end problems. Problem solving is key to any lean enterprise. Smalley's book helps practitioners identify and handle each appropriately.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 #53: The Toyota Way The Four Types of Problems

Kent Beck's 1999 book "Extreme Programming" is a forerunner to modern software development engineering. This episode presents the second edition published in 2005. There are so many great ideas in here. I'm hard pressed to find anything that's irrelevant or that I disagree with.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 Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley Extreme Programming at Pivotal

This episode continues the theme of the past two episodes. Tl;DR: understand the price of work, optimize for flow through queues, use WIP constraints, reduce batch sizes, and prefer decentralization.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 Links Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website Principles of Product Development Flow Episode 59: Time Thieves Episode 58: Queuing Theory

This episodes connects Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten and Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis via the five time thieves.The thieves are: too much WIP (work-in-progress), unknown dependencies, conflicting priorities, neglected work, and (the most annoying of the bunch) interrupts.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 Principles of Product Development Flow Making Work Visible Dominica DeGrandis on the Profound Podcast Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

Adam presents applying the mathematics behind queueing theory to software delivery. Also an announcement!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 Principles of Product Development Flow Making Work Visible Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

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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 and I in the Flow Collective.Free Resources 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 Steve Pereria on Twitter Steve Pereria on LinkedIn Steve Pereria's website The Flow Collective Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

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 Steve and I in the Flow Collective.Free Resources 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 Steve Pereria on Twitter Steve Pereria on LinkedIn Steve Pereria's website The Flow Collective Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

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 to the flow engineering.Do you like this topic? Come join Steve and I in the Flow Collective.Free Resources 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 Steve Pereria on Twitter Steve Pereria on LinkedIn Steve Pereria's website The Flow Collective Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

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 short summary of each and how they relate to past material covered on the podcast.Free Resources 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 Toyota Way summary and analysis Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

The third of a three part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis.John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.Adam and John dial in on one of the core tenants of the System of Profound knowledge: understanding variation. They discuss special and common cause variation and how to deal with each. Also, why is that most people have not heard of Deming when he's such an impact on lean theory.Free Resources 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 John Willis on Twitter John Willis on LinkedIn Profound Podcast The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book) Out of the Crisis The DevOps Handbook 12 Days to Deming (Free course) Variation (Small Batches Episode #49) Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.

The second of a three part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis.John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.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. Free Resources 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 John Willis on Twitter John Willis on LinkedIn Profound Podcast The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book) Out of the Crisis The DevOps Handbook 12 Days to Deming (Free course) Get InvolvedFollow @smallbatchesfm on Twitter and tweet me with your comments. Want a topic covered on the show? Then call +1-833-933-1912 and leave your request in a voice mail. Preference goes to to listener requests.Support the Show!Tell me about you in the listener survey! Rate this show on iTunes. Share this episode with your friends and colleaagues. Feedback is love, so send some my way.