Adam presents the mental model behind T1 and T2 signals, a necessary lexicon for understanding production operations.

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• 🎁 Enter the FREE giveaway for a copy of "Flow Engineering"
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #103 - Understanding Production Operations (The MMIVM episode)
• ☕️ Small Batches #90 - As Measured By
• ☕️ Small Batches #88 - Golden Signals
• ☕️ Small Batches #26 - SLOs with Alex Hidalgo (Google SRE and author of the SLO book)
• 🥋 Software Kaizen: My One-on-One System for Engineering Leadership

Chapters

• (00:00) - T1 & T2 Signals
• (00:23) - Can you answer this question?
• (01:27) - Flow Engineering Giveaway
• (02:30) - Tier 1 & Tier 1 Signals
• (03:49) - Example: Datadog Spending
• (06:13) - Example: a Web Service
• (08:23) - Example: Video Transcription
• (09:26) - PROTIP One
• (09:57) - PROTIP Two
• (10:27) - PROTIP Three
• (11:07) - PROTIP Four
• (11:43) - PROTIP Five
• (12:38) - PROTIP 6
• (13:22) - PROTIP Seven
• (14:24) - Study Guide Announcement
• (15:07) - Announcing more Paid Perks
• (17:25) - Outro

Adam answers a listener's request of advice on succeeding in high-level company or project environments with seven tips.

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• 📘 Buy "Goldratt's Rules of Flow"
• 📘 Buy "Playing to Win" (my favorite book on strategy)
• ☕️ Small Batches #99: Wiring the Winning Organization
• ☕️ Small Batches #82: Leadership is Language

Chapters

• (00:00) - Rules of Flow
• (00:23) - Listener Request
• (00:48) - May Giveaway: Flow Engineering
• (01:30) - Rules of Flow
• (04:15) - Goldratt's Rule of Flow
• (04:52) - Tip One: Control WIP
• (05:16) - Tip Two: Full-Kits
• (06:02) - Tip Three: Set a Cadence
• (06:51) - Tip Four: Right-Size
• (07:42) - Tip Five: Buffers
• (08:39) - Tip Six: Visual Management
• (10:11) - Tip Seven: Language
• (10:49) - Bonus Tip: Information Diet
• (11:12) - Outro

Adam presents TDD as skill zero, the one that unlocks all the others.

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• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🎁 April 2024 Giveaway instructions
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Dave Farley on Small Batches
• 📘 Tidy First? by Kent Beck

Chapters

• (00:00) - Skill Zero: Test Driven Development
• (00:25) - Intro
• (01:32) - Free April Giveaway
• (02:27) - Skill Zero
• (04:06) - Learning from Management
• (05:11) - TDD in Teams
• (06:03) - Systems Thinking
• (06:39) - Balancing Feedback Loops
• (08:00) - Reinforcing Feedback Loops
• (09:13) - Batch-Size Controls
• (13:04) - Outro