Accelerate — Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim Buy now from Amazon Resonating Message By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on overall organizational performance. Chapter in one sentence

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Buy now at Amazon Resonating Message We must rethink the way we look at business, creating a culture and environment that insists assumpted be stated and tested rapidly, to efficiently identify and validate value and growth hypothesis — to scientifically uncover how to turn a company vision into a…

Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo Buy now at Amazon

Why I’m creating these lessons? For 2023 — I will be sharing concepts, mental models, and key learnings — with the goal to help reinforce my own learning of these key topics, but hopefully, create some useful content for my readers. …

The power of the written narrative I have long been a fan of the power of summarising as a self-deveopment tool. The forced process of building knowledge through comprehension, synthesis, reflection, and reframing is a powerful reinforcement tool for learning. Through it I have writing a number of book summaries which I’ve shared via this channel…

Imagine for a moment you’re on a passenger flight with your child — cruising along at 35,000ft enjoying your undersized and overpriced bag of peanuts when suddenly you hear a noise. What little existed of your peanuts is now airborne, with nervous gasps and a shriek from across the cabin…

I’ve previously talked at length about how to avoid product pollution by creating Product/Service separation. In that article, we explored the perspective of a Service Team and how they can support Product/Service separation through the application of a set of rules¹: That article aimed to highlight why the commitment to…

The last 12 months have been challenging the global pandemic, and the rapid transformation it’s forced upon how we work, interact, and lead within our organisations. We’ve had to rapidly reimagine the workplace — transforming how things are done, where things are done, how we structure our teams, and how…

Let’s face it — management is waste. If your business had a team with all the resources and skills they needed, a clear and compelling vision, and self-organised (or perhaps we should say self-managed now¹) itself into successful business outcomes — then, of course, in that utopian future we’d see…