LLMs and Generative AI in the enterprise.
Inspire, develop, and guide a winning organization.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
An on-demand learning experience from the people who brought you The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Accelerate, and more.
Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
Exploring the impact of GenAI in our organizations & creating business impact through technology leadership.
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
Just as physical jerk throws our bodies off balance, technological jerk throws our mental models and established workflows into disarray when software changes too abruptly or without proper preparation.
Sure, vibe coding makes you code faster—that’s the obvious selling point. But if you think speed is the whole story, you’re missing out on the juicy stuff.
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
About The Author
Kent Beck brings over forty years of pioneering experience in software engineering methodologies, having created Extreme Programming (XP) and co-created Test-Driven Development (TDD)—practices that fundamentally transformed how organizations develop software. Currently authoring the best-selling newsletter tidyfirst.substack.com, he shares insights on software design, refactoring, and development practices with a global audience of engineering leaders and practitioners. As a co-author of the Agile Manifesto and creator of the xUnit testing framework, Kent has established foundational principles for iterative development and automated testing that remain industry standards, while his influential books, including Extreme Programming Explained, continue to shape modern software practices. Throughout his career at leading technology companies including Apple and Facebook, Kent has remained committed to improving developer productivity and software quality through pragmatic engineering practices and empirical approaches to design.