New books
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.
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.
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.
Team Guides for Software
The Team Guide series takes a team-first approach to software systems with the aim of empowering whole teams to build and operate software systems more effectively.
All books
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Upcoming Author events
Recent Author Events
In this podcast, Mike Kavis and guests, Chris Young and Mattia Battiston, discuss teams, workflow, and value delivery. Their advice: IT and business must work collaboratively to manage change, identify and clear bottlenecks, and understand where value lies to optimize workflow.
By working across tech and business, I think you build that shared understanding, you create that empathy, and that helps you kind of work better.
Join Matthew Skelton and Victoria Morgan Smith, co-authors of the book Internal Tech Conferences: Accelerate Multi-team Learning, for a Container Solutions webinar: “WTF are Internal Tech Conferences“, hosted by Jamie Dobson.
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. The pace of change in IT means that cross-department learning is essential, and many organisations have found that an internal tech conference is an excellent way to achieve this.
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. The pace of change in IT means that cross-department learning is essential, and many organisations have found that an internal tech conference is an excellent way to achieve this.
A talk at the Agile In The City Bristol conference - November 06-08:
Agile metrics for predicting the future by Mattia Battiston (author of Team Guide to Metrics for Business Decisions)
Most teams need to answer questions like “When will it be done? What can I get by date X?”. However, common estimation approaches often fail to give us the predictability we want, and tend to introduce bad behaviours like hard deadlines and hiding uncertainty.
Software Testability book now available worldwide in print and ebook formats
Ash Winter and Rob Meaney, leading practitioners in software development, announce the print publication of their book Team Guide to Software Testability. In it they provide a set of tools for answering crucial questions, making it easier for teams to work on the things that matter most: high-value, high-quality, timely outcomes for users and customers.
Mattia Battiston and Chris Young, leading practitioners in software development, announce the print publication of their book Metrics for Business Decisions. In it they provide a set of tools for answering crucial questions, making it easier for teams to work on the things that matter most: high-value, high-quality, timely outcomes for users and customers.
Agile Stationery and Matthew Skelton, founder and Head of Consulting at Conflux, have collaborated on a new tool for assessing and developing teams across various aspects of their practices.