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.
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.
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.
Rob Thatcher has substantial experience helping organisations to build effective technical operations, support, and delivery teams, and design and operate effective IT architectures. With Director-level experience in the financial services sector, his focus now on building teams through mentoring and coaching with a pragmatic approach to help people build confidence, knowledge and capabilities.
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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.
