Adam discusses strategy in preparation for the next episode.

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• 📘 Playing to Win by Lafely & Martin

Chapters

• (00:00) - Playing to Win
• (00:46) - Flight Levels
• (01:53) - What is strategy?
• (03:45) - Strategy for SRE at Skillshare
• (05:16) - Outro

Adam discusses three (new-ish) ideas from time on a new gemba.

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• 📘 Flight Levels by Klaus Leopold

Chapters

• (00:00) - On the Gemba
• (00:22) - What's new
• (00:44) - Sequencing over Prioritization
• (03:44) - Flight Levels
• (05:11) - Thought Experiment
• (06:50) - Outro

Adam describes using Hexagonal Architecture, also known as Ports and Adapters, for software delivery excellence.

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• 📘 Hexagonal Architecture by Alistair Cockburn
• ☕️ Small Batches #17 with Dave Farley

Chapters

• (00:00) - Hexagonal Architecture
• (00:23) - Reflections on Ruby and Rails
• (01:41) - What is Hexagonal Architecture?
• (02:45) - The Repository Pattern
• (04:32) - Dependency Injection
• (06:43) - Thinking in Pipelines
• (08:03) - Development Environments
• (09:09) - Outro

Adam welcomes Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis to discuss their new book, Flow Engineering. They discuss the book's origin story and the use of cybernetics to drive effective action.

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• 🧠 Join the Flow Collective
• 🥋 Software Kaizen: My One-on-One System for Engineering Leadership

Chapters

• (00:00) - Flow Engineering
• (00:23) - Intro
• (00:59) - Free June Giveaway
• (01:38) - Andrew's Intro
• (02:38) - Steve's Intro
• (03:46) - Book's Origin Story
• (06:49) - Adam's Thoughts on the Book
• (13:03) - The Five Maps
• (19:16) - Value, Clarity Flow
• (23:46) - What is Essential?
• (27:12) - Cybernetics & Effective Action
• (39:51) - The Principles & Visual Management
• (53:21) - Wrap up
• (56:53) - Outro

Adam presents the mental model behind T1 and T2 signals, a necessary lexicon for understanding production operations.

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• ☕️ Small Batches #103 - Understanding Production Operations (The MMIVM episode)
• ☕️ Small Batches #90 - As Measured By
• ☕️ Small Batches #88 - Golden Signals
• ☕️ Small Batches #26 - SLOs with Alex Hidalgo (Google SRE and author of the SLO book)
• 🥋 Software Kaizen: My One-on-One System for Engineering Leadership

Chapters

• (00:00) - T1 & T2 Signals
• (00:23) - Can you answer this question?
• (01:27) - Flow Engineering Giveaway
• (02:30) - Tier 1 & Tier 1 Signals
• (03:49) - Example: Datadog Spending
• (06:13) - Example: a Web Service
• (08:23) - Example: Video Transcription
• (09:26) - PROTIP One
• (09:57) - PROTIP Two
• (10:27) - PROTIP Three
• (11:07) - PROTIP Four
• (11:43) - PROTIP Five
• (12:38) - PROTIP 6
• (13:22) - PROTIP Seven
• (14:24) - Study Guide Announcement
• (15:07) - Announcing more Paid Perks
• (17:25) - Outro

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

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• 📘 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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• 🧭 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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• 🎁 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