O'Reilly Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

It talk about how a Lean company should works covering lots of topics. It’s really interesting and it’s really linked with new ways of working that will be really interesting for companies that wants to move to a more efficient mindset

😍The government should fly planes over London dropping this book onto the streets.A heart lifting guide to transforming Victorian, bureaucratic, hierarchical organisations into innovative, producers of digital experiences that delight their customers and empower the workforce.A practical guide covering culture, history of Lean, the three horizons of a product, validation and MVP, measurements, feedback loops, flow and cycle time, innovation accounting, analytics, tearing down silos, impact mapping, continuous improvement, continuous integration, test automation, kanban, cost of delay, blue-green deployment, feature flags, lean UX, safe cultures, a/b testing, the list goes on and on.Full of anecdotes and evidence, and levels wonderful criticism at the incumbent graying behemoths with their pathological cultures, so that at least when you fail to make dent you can reap some sense of schadenfreude from their inevitable bankruptcy, or bail out.

This book is one of my first recommendations when I asked about lean, organisational change and continuous improvement.Real, sustainable change is really hard in complex systems like enterprises. The authors did a great job in explaining Lean principles and how they can be applied in an organisation.My favorite parts:* Model and Measure Investment Risk* The complete "transform" chapter - and especially the "Grow an innovation culture" part* Embrace Lean Thinking for Governance, Risk and Compliance* Principles of organisational changeIt's a great read and it shows the experience of the authors in the given field.

One of the best books I have read in 2021. Many interesting ideas. Very practical.

This is a well researched, and extremely relevant publication. Many large organisations are attempting to learn the lessons of the nimble start-ups, but incorporating these principles into large established corporations is clearly a challenge. The authors stitch together compliance, lean thinking and the necessary technology required to support the speed, and customer development tactics deployed by the west coast startups - while employing the corporate needs for investment management, feature / backlog value, and cost of delay based prioritisation and compliance. This book is not an easy read, being packed from start to finish with guidance and specific detail on how to move into the new paradigm. My one observation would be to use this book as your reference, and seek out support from practitioners as you implement this approach.