Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

OODA for operational excellence

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This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Ben Ford, former Royal Marine and founder of Commando Development, about the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act). Shipping is just a small part of it. The OODA loop that you know is probably the wrong one. We explore Mission & Command, Situational Awareness and a few other practices that will help you deal with complexity as you code and ship. As a former Royal Marine Commando, Ben learned these skills the hard way, and then refined them over many years as a software engineer. Check out the diagrams in the show notes - they are a work of art and precision.

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    • Ben Ford – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
    • Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

    Show Notes:

    • Algorithms for Leadership
    • Ben’s OODA YouTube playlist
    • Team of Teams
    • One Mission
    • Extreme Ownership
    • Turn the Ship Around
    • Red Teaming
    • The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
      • Ben's OODA remake of John Boyd's original
      Ben's representation of OODA - my favourite 💙
      The OODA diagram that is easiest to remember

      Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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