Software Delivery in Small Batches

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 podcast on Patreon ★

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.LinksModern Software Engineering by Dave FarleyExtreme 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📘 Principles of Product Development Flow ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 Development Flow📘 Making Work Visible🧠 Dominica DeGrandis on the Profound Podcast ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam presents applying the mathematics behind queueing theory to software delivery. Also, an announcement!LinksNEW! 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 Patreon ★

Entries include:Software Delivery KPIsLead TimeDeployment FrequencyMTTR (Mean-time-to-resolve)Change Failure RateJidokaKaizenType 3 Problems: target-conditionSubscribe 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 and I in the Flow Collective.Free ResourcesToyota Kata Pocket GuideThe Flow CollectiveDevOps Email CourseProject to Product Email CourseWar & Peace & IT Pocket GuideLinksThe Flow CollectiveFree 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 ResourcesToyota Kata Pocket GuideThe Flow CollectiveDevOps Email CourseProject to Product Email CourseWar & Peace & IT Pocket GuideLinksThe Flow CollectiveFree 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 ResourcesToyota Kata Pocket GuideThe Flow CollectiveDevOps Email CourseProject to Product Email CourseWar & Peace & IT Pocket GuideLinksThe Flow CollectiveFree 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 ★