Software Delivery in Small Batches

Adam connects Deming's trips to Japan in 1950 with modern software delivery. This is an essential episode.

Deming on Small Batches:

• ☕️ Small Batches #100: Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge with John Willis
• ☕️ Small Batches #67: The Red Beads (Deming's experiment to introduce SPok)
• ☕️ Small Batches #49: Variation
• ☕️ Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
• ☕️ Small Batches #51: System of Profound Knowledge with John Willis
• ☕️ Small Batches #52: Understanding Variation with John Willis

Down the Deming Rabbit Hole:

• If Japan Can, why can't we? (Video), NBC Special Report, 1980
• "Deming to DevOps" presentation by John Willis
• Deming's Speech in Hakone to industry leaders in Japan, 1950
• Deming's Visualization of Japan as a System from 1950
• The Deming Institute
• 📘 Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge
• 📘 The New Economics
• 📘 The Essential Deming
• 📘 Out of the Crisis
• 🎙️The Profound Podcast

Adam shares an end-of-year reflection on pursuing the lean ideal. This is the last episode of 2022. Small Batches will return in 2023.

Adam presents the language used to call the plays from Leadership is Language as told in The Project Banana episode. 

Learn More

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #80: Project Banana
• ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
• ☕️ Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
• 📘 Leadership is Language

Adam presents the concept of redwork and bluework presented in the book "Leadership is Language".

Learn More

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #80: Project Banana
• ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
• ☕️ Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
• 📘 Leadership is Language

Something completely different. This episode is a short story about leadership, communication, and collaboration.

Chapters

• (00:00) - 080 - Project Banana

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #80: Project Banana
• ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
• ☕️ Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
• 📘 Leadership is Language

Learn More

• NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• The Flow Collective (Come join Saeed and I)
• Saeed's post on the Business Vision, Product Vision, Product Objectives, Product Strategy, and Roadmap hierarchy

Learn More

• NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
• Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
• Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
• Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
• The Flow Collective

Adam summarizes John Shook's book "Managing to Learn" on the A3 problem-solving process.

Show Notes

• ☕️ Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
• ☕️ Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge
• 📘 Managing to Learn
• 📘 Understanding A3 Thinking
• 🧠 More on the A3 Process with Examples
• 🎁 My Annotated A3 Template Miro Board

Learn More

• NEW! Get Small Batches Slack App
• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
• Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
• The Coaching Habit (2016)
• The Flow Collective

Recommend Reading

• 📘 The New Economics by Dr. Deming
• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear
• 📘 The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
• 📘 The Toyota Way by Jeffery Liker
• 📘 The Toyota Kata by Mike Rother
• 📘 The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten
• 📘 Making Work Visible by Dominica de Grandis
• 📘 Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
• 📘 The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick de Bois, John Willis
• 📘 The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Stafford
• 📘 Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
• 📘 The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday (Bonus!)

Recommended Listening

• ☕️ Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
• ☕️ Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
• ☕️ Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
• ☕️ Small Batches #60: The Principles of Product Development Flow
• ☕️ Small Batches #59: Making Work Visible
• ☕️ Small Batches #63: Modern Software Engineering
• ☕️ Small Batches #1: The Three Ways of DevOps
• ☕️ Small Batches #16: The Story of Parts Unlimited
• ☕️ Small Batches #18: Team Topologies