Adam answers a listener's request of advice on succeeding in high-level company or project environments with seven tips.

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• 🎁 Enter the FREE giveaway for a copy of "Flow Engineering"
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• 📘 Buy "Goldratt's Rules of Flow"
• 📘 Buy "Playing to Win" (my favorite book on strategy)
• ☕️ Small Batches #99: Wiring the Winning Organization
• ☕️ Small Batches #82: Leadership is Language

Chapters

• (00:00) - Rules of Flow
• (00:23) - Listener Request
• (00:48) - May Giveaway: Flow Engineering
• (01:30) - Rules of Flow
• (04:15) - Goldratt's Rule of Flow
• (04:52) - Tip One: Control WIP
• (05:16) - Tip Two: Full-Kits
• (06:02) - Tip Three: Set a Cadence
• (06:51) - Tip Four: Right-Size
• (07:42) - Tip Five: Buffers
• (08:39) - Tip Six: Visual Management
• (10:11) - Tip Seven: Language
• (10:49) - Bonus Tip: Information Diet
• (11:12) - Outro

Adam presents TDD as skill zero, the one that unlocks all the others.

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• 🎁 April 2024 Giveaway instructions
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Dave Farley on Small Batches
• 📘 Tidy First? by Kent Beck

Chapters

• (00:00) - Skill Zero: Test Driven Development
• (00:25) - Intro
• (01:32) - Free April Giveaway
• (02:27) - Skill Zero
• (04:06) - Learning from Management
• (05:11) - TDD in Teams
• (06:03) - Systems Thinking
• (06:39) - Balancing Feedback Loops
• (08:00) - Reinforcing Feedback Loops
• (09:13) - Batch-Size Controls
• (13:04) - Outro

Adam presents a catch-all episode on ops reviews, visual management, call-to-actions, and SLOs.

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• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🎁 April 2024 Giveaway instructions
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #104: Blue-Yellow-Black Visual Management
• ☕️ Small Batches #26: Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo
• ☕️ Small Batches #103: Understanding Production Operations
• 🥋 How to Find your Initial SLOs on Software Kaizen

Chapters

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:35) - This Month's Free Giveaway!
• (01:17) - On Ops Reviews
• (09:13) - Outro

Dave Mangot returns to discuss his new book "DevOps Patterns for Private Equity". Don't let the title fool you, this is best introduction to DevOps and many related software delivery topics. Buy this book for anyone in leadership.

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• 🎁 Enter the FREE March 2024 book giveaway
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• 📘 DevOps Patterns for Private Equity (Dave's Book)
• ☕️ Small Batches #37: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team with Dave Mangot

Chapters

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:48) - FREE Giveaway
• (01:38) - Dave's Introduction
• (02:28) - Why this book?
• (05:14) - How Private Equity wins with Software Delivery
• (08:13) - Communicating these ideas
• (11:43) - A common entry point?
• (16:21) - Quaterly Roadmaps?
• (21:48) - Drift into Kanban
• (31:54) - On Monitoring & Operations
• (39:59) - Wrap Up

Adam presents visual management using simple blue, yellow, and black color grading. This is an essential episode.

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• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🎁 March 2024 Giveaway instructions
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• 📘 Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn (Katie's Book)
• ☕️ Small Batches #102: Chain of Learning with Katie Anderson
• 🥋 The Toyota Way on Software Kaizen

Chapters

• (00:00) - Blue, Yellow, Black
• (00:22) - Background
• (01:20) - March Giveaway
• (01:55) - Origin Story
• (05:49) - Blue-Yellow-Black In Ops Reviews
• (08:11) - Blue-Yellow-Black In 1:1s
• (11:55) - Blue-Yellow-Black In A3s
• (14:40) - Wrap-up
• (15:45) - Farewell Alex
• (16:14) - Outro

Adam presents a series of questions to understand production operations, plus a method to practice: MMIVM. That's Model-Measure-Instrument-Visualize-Monitor.

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• 🎁 Enter the February 2024 Book Giveaway!
• ☕️ Small Batches #90: As Measured By
• ☕️ Small Batches #88: Golden Signals

Chapters

• (00:00) - Understanding Production Operations
• (00:23) - You Build it, You Run it
• (01:27) - Feburary Giveaway
• (01:59) - To What Aim? By What Method?
• (02:19) - Question One
• (02:45) - Question Two
• (03:30) - Question Three
• (04:13) - Question Four
• (05:24) - Question Five
• (06:14) - The Exercise
• (06:24) - Model
• (06:45) - Measure
• (07:11) - Instrument
• (07:40) - Visualize
• (08:28) - Monitor
• (09:03) - Recap
• (10:31) - Outro

Adam's welcomes Katie Anderson to the show to discuss her book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn, lean thinking, and the powerful growth mindset.

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• 📘 Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn (Katie's Book)
• 🎧 Chain of Learning (Katie's Podcast)
• ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn

Chapters

• (00:00) - Chain of Learning with Katie Anderson
• (00:23) - Today's Episode
• (01:13) - Feburary Giveaway!
• (01:40) - Katie's Background
• (03:06) - Katie's Origin Story
• (13:59) - The Toyota Boat?
• (25:47) - Katie's Japan Study Trips
• (29:26) - The Impact of Culture
• (36:31) - Growth Mindset
• (49:32) - Katie & Adam's self Kaizen
• (54:59) - Connect with Katie
• (56:11) - Outro

Adam's two most common words (verbal ticks even) from 2023. Is it a party foul to bring lean thinking into a New Year's Eve party?

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• ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
• ☕️ Small Batches #87: Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
• 📘 Managing to Learn
• 📘 Lean Product & Process Development

Chapters

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:47) - News: Website Updates
• (01:10) - News: Free Giveaways
• (01:35) - Viable
• (05:29) - Go and See
• (07:55) - Outro