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Internal Tech Conferences book now available in print worldwide
Books, Internal Tech Conferences
Internal Tech Conferences book now available in print worldwide
Books, Internal Tech Conferences

The book Internal Tech Conferences by Victoria Morgan-Smith and Matthew Skelton is now available in print and ebook formats from Amazon stores worldwide (US, Canada, DE, FR, UK and other territories, Book Depository, Bookshop and on e-book stores, releasing 16 November 2020.

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Book: Team Guide to Software Operability
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Book: Team Guide to Software Operability
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By Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore, and Rob Thatcher

July 2019

ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6

Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

This guide provides a set of hands-on practices based on real-world, tried-and-tested experience across multiple organizations for teams to adopt (and adapt) in order to promote and enhance software operability.

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Book: Team Guide to Metrics for Business Decisions
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Book: Team Guide to Metrics for Business Decisions
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By Mattia Battiston and Chris Young

May 2021

ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6

Learn how metrics can help your software team answer questions like “How fast are we going? What should we do next? Where’s the bottleneck?” Deliver software more effectively with greater certainty.

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Book: Team Guide to Software Testability
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Book: Team Guide to Software Testability
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By Ash Winter and Rob Meaney

November 2021

ISBN 978-1-912058-67-9

Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.

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Book: Team Guide to Software Releasability
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Book: Team Guide to Software Releasability
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By Manuel Pais and Chris O’Dell

Date: TBC

ISBN 978-1-912058-59-4

Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.

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Book: Better Whiteboard Sketches
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Book: Better Whiteboard Sketches
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How To Sketch Better Technical Diagrams

By Matthew Skelton

February 2019

ISBN 978-1-912058-93-8

This book provides a very practical approach to better whiteboard sketches. Although the techniques are based on sound research and practical usage, the theory is kept to a minimum and you can get started with techniques almost immediately.

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Book: Internal Tech Conferences
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Book: Internal Tech Conferences
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Internal Tech Conferences: Accelerate Multi-team Learning

By Victoria Morgan-Smith and Matthew Skelton

April 2019

ISBN 978-1-912058-96-9

Internal tech conferences can make a significant impact on an organisation's level of sharing, learning, and communication by accelerating multi-team learning across technology departments. An increasing number of enlightened organisations are using this powerful approach to spread and embed new ideas and practices.

In this book we share practical advice on how to prepare, run, and follow-up on an internal tech conference, together with some case studies from several organisations showing the approaches in common and the adaptations for each situation.

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Book: Build Quality In
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Book: Build Quality In
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Build Quality In

Edited by Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton

February 2015

Build Quality In is a book of Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience reports from the wild.

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