Adam Hawkins
Software Delivery Coach
Appears in 113 Episodes
The Ideal
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.
Leadership is Language
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 introduc...
Redwork / Bluework
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 ...
Project Banana
Something completely different. This episode is a short story about leadership, communication, and collaboration.ChaptersLearn More🚀 New listener? Start with the intro...
Product Management with Saeed Khan
A long-form weekend conversation on the vision, objective, strategy, and roadmap aspects of product management with Saeed Khan. Saeed is a product consultant based in ...
Lean Leadership
The mental model for lean leadership through self-development, personal mastery, and developing others.
Managing to Learn
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-Ve...
The Coaching Habit
Adam presents how lean leaders can use the seven questions from The Coaching Habit.
DevOps 101
Adam presents an updated introduction to DevOps principles and practices.
System Archetypes
Adam presents some examples of The Fifth Discipline's system archetypes in software delivery.
Lean Software Delivery 101
A short introduction to the ideas and practice of lean applied to software delivery. A preview of the material in the Small Batches slack app.
Percent Complete and Accurate
Adam introduces the percent complete and accurate metric used in system design and operations.
Recommend Reading
Adam presents recommended reading for anyone interested in lean software delivery.
Deployment Pipelines
Adam discusses the stages in deployment pipelines and why they are necessary but not sufficient for continuous delivery. Listen through to the end.
PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act)
Adam present's Dr. Deming's PDCA cycle and how it applies to the daily work of delivering software.
Inflection Points
Adam presents inflection points where organizations and systems may choose improvement or decay.
The Red Beads
Adam explains how Deming's "Red Beads" experiment demonstrates the system of profound knowledge and the problems with management by objective.
The 5S Method
Applying the 5S's (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) to the telemetry needed for stable production operations
Systems Thinking
Introducing systems thinking through MIT's beer game and system archetypes described in "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter Senge.
Canary Deploys
A brief introduction of canary deploys and using them to mitigate risk.
Modern Software Engineering
A look into the ideas of empiricism, iteration, and incrementalism applied to software engineering. These are the code ideas of Dave Farley's 2022 book "Modern Softwar...
The Four Types of Problems
Adam presents "The Four Types of Problems" by Art Smalley. The types are troubleshooting, gap from standard, target condition, and open-ended.Learn More🚀 New listener?...
Extreme Programming
Let's go back in time to linger on the works of the master thinkers. This episode presents Kent Beck's book "Extreme Programming Explained".
The Principles of Product Development Flow
Adam presents a summary of Donald Reinertsen's 2009 book. Tl;DR: understand the price of work, optimize for flow through queues, use WIP constraints, reduce batch size...
Time Thieves
Adam presents the "five time thieves" described in Dominica DeGrandis' book Making Work Visible. The thieves are: too much WIP (work-in-progress), unknown dependencies...
Queuing Theory
Adam presents applying the mathematics behind queueing theory to software delivery. Also, an announcement!LinksNEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams🚀 New listener...
Software Delivery Glossary
Adam previews a new project by presenting a few entires from the software delivery glossary.
Flow Mapping with Steve Pereira
Adam welcome Steve "The Value Stream Guy" Pereira to the show. The last part of the conversation. Adam and Steve discuss how to get started with flow engineering and v...
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 ...
