Adam presents thinking about boundaries, testing, and software design.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 🥋 The Software Kaizen Substack 🖥️ Alistair Cockburn's posts on Hexagonal Architecture 📘 New Book! Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge by John Willis ☕️ Small Batches #22: Derek Comartin on Service Boundaries You can support Small Batches here.

Adam presents how he thinks about estimates and delivery. Plus, a special announcement on something new!Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 🥋 The Software Kaizen Substack 📘 Principles of Product Development Flow 📘 Making Work Visible  ☕️ Small Batches #86 - Flow: A mental Model You can support Small Batches here.

Adam presents mental model behind lean and agile. The mental model accepts we don't know the path forward, thus we must optimize for learning it.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 🧠 The Small Batches Way study guide  📘 The Fifth Discipline 📘 The Learn Startup ☕️ Small Batches #39 - The High-Velocity Edge You can support Small Batches here.

Adam presents the rationale behind choosing a language or tech stack. Spoiler alert: it's irrelevant to software delivery performance. Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘 Accelerate - The science of software delivery performance 📘 The DevOps Handbook ☕️ Small Batches #65- Systems Thinking 🧠 The DORA report You can support Small Batches here.

Adam presents thoughts on Sidney Dekker's book "Drift into Failure".  Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘 Drift into Failure by Sidney Dekker 📘 The Field Guide to Understanding "Human Error" by Sidney Dekker ☕️ Small Batches #65- Systems Thinking 📹 The Pursuit of Success & Averting Drift into Failure - Sidney Dekker (DOES 2017) You can support Small Batches here.Editor's note: There is an error in the recording. Adam mistakenly refers to Challenger when he means Columbia.

Adam revisits the historic Agile Manifesto.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 🧠 The Agile Manifesto 📘The Art of Agile Development by James Shore 📘The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim ☕️ Small Batches #63 - Modern Software Engineering You can support Small Batches here.

Adam shares an example of breaking work into increments and iterations.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley ☕️ Small Batches #63 - Modern Software Engineering You can support Small Batches here.

Adam shows how the phrase "as measured by" encourages empirical and scientific thinking.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘 Measure what Matters by John Doerr  ☕️ Small Batches #88 - Golden Signals ☕️ Small Batches #84 - Deming & The System of Profound Knowledge ☕️ Small Batches #69 - Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) You can support Small Batches here.

Adam describes the aims for this podcast and what listeners can expect.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.You can support Small Batches here.

Adam presents the four golden signals for steering production operations.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘 Release It! Design & Deploy production-ready Software 📘 Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems ☕️ Small Batches #26 - Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo ☕️ Small Batches #75 - DevOps 101 🧠 The USE Metrics Framework 🧠 Monitoring Distributed Systems You can support Small Batches here.

Adam comments on the importance of creating a menu of viable alternatives when problem-solving.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘 Understanding A3 Thinking 📘 Toyota Kata 📘 Lean Product & Process Development ☕️ Small Batches #77 - Managing to Learn ☕️ Small Batches #62 - Four Types of Problems You can support Small Batches here.

Adam introduces the idea of "flow" beginning with the Theory of Constraints and ending with value stream networks.Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these: 📘 The Goal  📘 Making Work Visible 📘 Principles of Product Development Flow 📘 Goldratt's Rule of Flow 📘 Value Stream Mapping 📘 Project to Product (introducing the Flow Framework) ☕️ Small Batches #42 - Kanban & Jidoka You can support Small Batches here.

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Learn More NEW! The Small Batches Slack App Toyota Kata Pocket Guide Small Batches #71: Recommended Reading The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course Socials Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website

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Learn More NEW! The Small Batches Slack App Toyota Kata Pocket Guide Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit Leadership is Language Leadership is Language Summary The Flow Collective DevOps Email Course Project to Product Email Course Socials Adam Hawkins on Twitter Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn Adam Hawkins' website

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