Flow
An annotated collection of 3 books on flow, spanning 2009 to 2019. Featuring works by Donald G. Reinertsen, David J. Anderson, Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
Reinertsen writes the book most "lean" advocates should have written and didn't: a rigorous, economics-based account of why batches, queues and variability govern the speed of product development. The argument is quantit…
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Anderson's central claim is subtle: you do not adopt Kanban, you discover it by making your current work visible. Start where you are, make WIP limits explicit, manage flow — and the process improves itself. The virtue o…
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Skelton and Pais take Conway's Law seriously and build an operating model from it: four fundamental team types (stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, platform) and three interaction modes (collaboration, X-as-…