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Flow Engineering with Steve Pereira
Adam welcomes Steve "The Value Stream Guy" Pereira to the show. Steve goes deep into flow engineering and the four outcome maps. Part two of three of the conversation.

Flow and Value with Steve Pereira
Adam welcomes Steve "The Value Stream Guy" Pereira to the show. Steve discusses his focus on value streams, the power and fractal nature of flow. Part one of three of ...

The Toyota Way
A summary of 14 principles described in Jeffery Liker's 2021 book "The Toyota Way".

Dr. Deming on Variation with John Willis
Adam and John Willis discuss the importance of common and special cause variation and the missing link in teaching lean theory.

System of Profound Knowledge with John Willis
Adam and John Willis discuss the aptly named "System of Profound Knowledge" introduced in Deming's book "The New Economics".

Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
Adam and John Willis introduce Dr. Deming through his books "Out of the Crisis", "The New Economics" and impact on lean theory over the course of a multi-decade career.

Dr. Deming on Variation
Introducing common cause vs special cause variation from Dr. Deming's book "A New Economics".

The High Velocity Edge with Steve Spear
Adam welcomes Steve Spear to the show to discuss his 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge".

The High Velocity Edge: Part Nine
My closing thoughts on the book before the next episode featuring my conversation with Steven Spear.

The High Velocity Edge: Part Eight
Capability three and four: share knowledge and develop high velocity skills in others.

The High Velocity Edge: Part Seven
Capability two: apply disciplined problem solving to resolve problems and continuous improve systems.

The High Velocity Edge: Part Six
Capability one: a framework for system design using kanban and jidoka.

The High Velocity Edge: Part Five
How to operate systems inspired by Sakichi Toyoda's "jidoka" philosophy.

The High Velocity Edge: Part Four
Introducing Taiichi Ohno's "kanban" and Sakichi Toyoda's "jidoka".

The High Velocity Edge: Part Three
The four capabilities demonstrated by the US Navy's Nuclear Reactor program lead by Admiral Hyman Rickover.

The High Velocity Edge: Part Two
The four capabilities demonstrated by Alcoa's commitment to changing their safety culture.

The High Velocity Edge: Part One
Adam introduces "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.

Dev Environments with Bryan Finster
Adam & Bryan Finster discuss the development workflows required for delivering to production daily with fast feedback and high confidence. Don't miss this one.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team with Dave Mangot
Adam discusses "The Five Dysfunctions of Team" by Patrick Lencioni with SRE & DevOps expert Dave Mangot.

Transforming Conversations with Jeffrey Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel
Adam Hawkins discuss Jeffrey Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel's book "Agile Conversations". They get into the concept of "TDD for People" and leading change through better ...

Value Streams with Carmen de Ardo
Carmen de Ardo & Adam Hawkins give an introduction to value streams and value stream management.

Team Topologies with Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton & Adam Hawkins discuss concepts in "Team Topologies" and inflection points in team and software architecture.

Developer Principles with Markus Schirp
Markus Schirp & Adam Hawkins discuss the principles and practices that led to mutation testing and impact on effective daily work.

Saltside Chronicles with Sebastian Dahlgren
Sebastian Dahlgren & Adam Hawkins continue the Saltside Chronicles by discussing the rewrite's long tail impacts on Saltside.

Saltside Chronicles #5: Retrospective
The third episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode is a retrospective through the lens of the flow framewor...

Saltside Chronicles #4: A New Architecture
The fourth episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode discusses how we split the monolith and created a new a...

Saltside Chronicles #3: The Snow Ball
The third episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode discusses how we started off creating an API & Android a...

Saltside Chronicles #2: Technical Debt Calls
The second episode in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode discusses the technical debt and architecture issues th...

Saltside Chronicles #1: Overview
The first in a five part series on the Big Bang rewrite completed at Saltside in 2014/15. This episode briefly tells the entire story as a backdrop for subsequent epis...

Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo
Alex Hidalgo & Adam Hawkins discuss the theory, practices, and the hard problems with service level objectives (SLOs).
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