Software Delivery in Small Batches

Adam presents the rationale behind choosing a language or tech stack. Spoiler alert: it's irrelevant to software delivery performance. 

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• 🚀 New listener? Start here.
• 📘 Accelerate - The science of software delivery performance
• 📘 The DevOps Handbook
• ☕️ Small Batches #65- Systems Thinking
• 🧠 The DORA report

Adam presents thoughts on Sidney Dekker's book "Drift into Failure".  

• 🚀 New listener? Start here.
• 📘 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)

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.

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• 🚀 New listener? Start here.
• 🧠 The Agile Manifesto
• 📘The Art of Agile Development by James Shore
• 📘The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim
• ☕️ Small Batches #63 - Modern Software Engineering

Adam shares an example of breaking work into increments and iterations.

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• 📘 Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
• ☕️ Small Batches #63 - Modern Software Engineering

Adam shows how the phrase, "as measured by", encourages empirical and scientific thinking.

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• 🚀 New listener? Start here.
• 📘 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)

Adam describes the aims of this podcast and what listeners can expect. Here's the best way to start down the path:

1. Envision the ideal: Small Batches #83
2. Study the origin: Small Batches #84
3. Build a mental model of the software delivery value stream: Small Batches #73
4. Follow me on LinkedIn for daily software delivery education
5. Create a self-study plan: Small Batches #71
6. Supplement with my catalog of episodes
7. Go to the gemba and start iterating 💪🏼

Want even more? Try these 101 episodes:

• Small Batches #75 - DevOps 101
• Small Batches #73 - Software Delivery 101

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

Adam comments on the importance of creating a menu of viable alternatives when problem-solving.

Show notes

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• 📘 Understanding A3 Thinking
• 📘 Toyota Kata
• 📘 Lean Product & Process Development
• ☕️ Small Batches #77 - Managing to Learn
• ☕️ Small Batches #62 - Four Types of Problems

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

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• NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• Small Batches #71: Recommended Reading
• Small Batches #84: Deming
• The Flow Collective