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NEW RELEASE! This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!

The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit. In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on.

In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century—time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. And now, with this updated second edition, readers will get more exercises plus a new afterword from the author featuring new learnings from the past five years.

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, coauthors of the highly successful Team Topologies, provide proven patterns for a successful remote-first approach to teams. Using simple tools for dependency tracking and patterns from Team Topologies, such as the Team API, organizations will find that well-defined team interactions are key to effective IT delivery in the remote-first world.

In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited helps organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book catalyzes a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure.

In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results. Combining the power derived from the Value Flywheel and the situational clarity provided by Wardley Mapping, organizations are able to sense and respond to change, easily navigating the rough waves ahead, including migrating to the cloud and serverless.

New Anniversary Edition!
In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.

Now a WSJ Bestseller!
This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited from the perspective of Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project. This is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together and racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.

Download the excerpts here.

NEW RELEASE! This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!

Winner of the Shingo Publication Award
Accelerate measures software delivery performance—and what drives it—using four years of groundbreaking research and rigorous statistical methods.

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IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of the four successful team patterns and three interactions modes to ensure success for IT organizations.

Winner of the Shingo Publication Award
Accelerate measures software delivery performance—and what drives it—using four years of groundbreaking research and rigorous statistical methods.

New!
Agile Conversations is a practical, step-by-step guide to using the human power of conversation to achieve truly Agile results. Stop following meaningless rituals that don’t deliver results. Instead, unleash the unique human power of conversation to build effective, high-performing teams.

Playful and thought-provoking, iconoclastic CIO Mark Schwartz explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices.

In this transcript of the audio series, Gene Kim and John Willis present a nine-part discussion of the oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussions around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon.

Gene Kim and John Willis present this nine-part series on the history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussions around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon.

NEW!
Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy.

NEW RELEASE! This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!

Winner of the 2018 DevOps Dozen Best DevOps Book!
Thought leader Mirco Hering lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers of legacy organizations to propel their organization to success and transform into modern IT leaders.

In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results. Combining the power derived from the Value Flywheel and the situational clarity provided by Wardley Mapping, organizations are able to sense and respond to change, easily navigating the rough waves ahead, including migrating to the cloud and serverless.

In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited helps organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, this book catalyzes a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that inspires trust and is inherently more secure.

Leading the Transformation is an executive guide, providing a clear framework for improving development and delivery by targeting the coordination of work across teams in large organizations.

In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century—time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. And now, with this updated second edition, readers will get more exercises plus a new afterword from the author featuring new learnings from the past five years.

New Anniversary Edition!
In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.

New!
Value stream network pioneer and technology leader Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework, a new way of building an infrastructure for innovation that will change the way enterprises think about software delivery.

The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit. In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on.

A Reader's Guide to A Seat at the Table is intended to add another dimension to the original book. This reader's guide walks through A Seat at the Table chapter by chapter.

The guide includes additional material for each chapter on:
• What has changed between the Waterfall/contractor-control world and the Agile world.
• The key points of the chapter.
• The concrete actions that IT leaders should take away from the chapter.
• Questions to help stimulate further debate.
• And more.

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, coauthors of the highly successful Team Topologies, provide proven patterns for a successful remote-first approach to teams. Using simple tools for dependency tracking and patterns from Team Topologies, such as the Team API, organizations will find that well-defined team interactions are key to effective IT delivery in the remote-first world.

Iconoclastic CIO Mark Schwartz reveals how IT leaders must throw off the old attitudes and assumptions and claim their rightful seat at the C-suite table.

Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals patterns and antipatterns to show how business leaders from every industry can help their organizations deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment.

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IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of the four successful team patterns and three interactions modes to ensure success for IT organizations.

Now a WSJ Bestseller!
This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited from the perspective of Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project. This is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together and racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.

Download the excerpts here.

Available Now!
In the latest book from iconoclastic CIO Mark Schwartz, find out why and how executives and business leaders must create a shared strategy with their IT organizations to drive innovation, enhance their competitive positioning, increase revenue, and delight customers.