March 2025
Accelerate speed to market by ReBooting your delivery approach
This month's newsletter features…a bumper selection, March has been quite the month for blogging, including us! Strategy bumping up against how you work, brittle teams, crazy prompt driven coding with AI, workplace challenges and simple Kanban, we have it all!
What we are saying…
How you work: The key to achieving your strategy
Why do 90% of senior executives fail to reach their strategic goals? Because they lack focus on how they execute. Read the latest blog.
Blog by Tony Fifoot
What we’ve been reading…
Don’t be brittle be ‘e l a s t i c’
Why most organisations produce Brittle rather than elastic teams. Blog by Maarten Dalmijn
Why is product so hard?
The 3 core challenges that every product company must tackle: Uncertainty, Misalignment, and Culture, and what you can do about them. by Itamar Gilad
My LLM codegen workflow atm
Harper Reed’s fascinating blog about coding with AI, quite the ride if you are curious about developers coding with prompts to LLMs.
Platform Engineering on the Brink
Is platform engineering at a crossroads? Will it fulfil its promise or fade away? The future of platform engineering lies in how you deliver what your developers want.
The Biggest Lie continues: The impact of leaders V managers
“People don’t quit companies; they quit managers.” This and other myths busted by Culture Amp.
People at Work…
Stuck in Honey
How it feels to be 'stuck' in a career when things are not so good not so bad. Thoughtful piece from Collin at The People Spot.
What if the office was fun?
How the office is becoming a place for playful connection.
Watching…
ReBoot Co. Agile Fundamentals
We've re-edited and relaunched our flagship online training course! This 18-part video series, led by co-founder Alex Stokes, takes you from Agile history and principles to essential practices and techniques for high-performing teams. Join our online learning community for $200 AUD per seat, or contact us for significant group discounts for your organisation.
Origin Stories…
User Story Mapping is so hot right now, well at my clients it is, here is a link to a fab slide deck from Jeff Paton the author of the ten year old book User Story Mapping, I think it’s a fantastic short cut to this impactful technique.
If you’ve used Kanban in your work a while, do you wonder where it came from? Here’s a simple illustration of how Kanban can be used for the ordering of Milk. Inventory control in manufacturing factories was the original purpose of Kanban.
Deals…
Alex’s book “Empowered Agile Transformation - Beyond the Framework“ is discounted for Australian readers while stocks last, or pick it up on amazon here.
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