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You've mastered working with your AI sous chef. You've discovered good FAAFO. But what happens when you need to conduct a symphony of digital assistants instead of managing a single partner? Gene Kim and Steve Yegge's excerpt from Vibe Coding takes you from line cook to head chef. The skills required shift from execution to orchestration, from individual productivity to organizational architecture. You'll learn frameworks for understanding how work gets done at scale, patterns for coordinating agent teams, and how to avoid becoming the source of 2 am pages for your on-call colleagues while creating conditions for FAAFO at organizational scale. The transition is happening whether you're ready or not. Get ready: https://itrev.io/43adY8K

This week's Friday humour brought to you by Jonathan Smart, one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. I had the pleasure to be live in the audience at #ETLS2025 hosted by IT Revolution in Vegas - and I honestly thought that Jon could be a stand-up comedian, rather than a global business agility expert. 15 mins of laughter. And at the end, you will be a Certified Really AI Practitioner. YouTube link in the comments. Enjoy! #BVSSH #ai

I've got a book club going at LaunchDarkly to read through Steve Yegge and Gene Kim's new book, Vibe Coding. If it's anything like their past work, Vibe Coding will be insightful, practical, and WAY more entertaining than it has any right to be. Can't wait!

The influential InfoQ people have placed Team Topologies adoption in the Early Majority segment for 2025: this means that Team Topologies is now a mainstream approach for organizations that use Cloud and DevOps for building and running digital services. What's holding back your organization from adopting Team Topologies patterns and techniques in late 2025? (Cute factoid: InfoQ helped to bring together the two TT authors (me and Manuel) back in 2015 in London 🫶) https://lnkd.in/e7Bknjr9

When coding is no longer the bottleneck, the rest of your organization becomes the bottleneck. We've seen this before. Cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps technologies boosted developer productivity so much they forced organizational rewiring. QA and InfoSec shifting left. "You build it, you run it" ownership models. The constraint moved up the stack. AI promises a bigger shift. When code generation stops being the constraint, pressure transfers to functional roles like product management, design, and QA. They become the new critical path. Gene Kim and Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding book shows that AI adoption initially correlates with worse performance metrics. The surprise DORA finding makes sense when you understand that organizational wiring hasn't caught up to the new capabilities. Address the elephant in the room: https://itrev.io/43adY8K

Hi #DevOps #AI #ContinuousDelivery #TechLeadership folks. Hope you are doing great. During the early mornings of my current vacation, I dedicated time to viewing several presentations from the 2025 Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit #ETLS in Las Vegas organized by IT Revolution and say thank you Gene Kim IT Revolution for inviting me to participate. I would like to share some of the greated talks about #AI #Technology #Leadership #Agility and more: #1 Talk: Output to Outcome: An Operating Model for the Age of AI by Mik Kersten #2 Talk: Making AI Agents Actually Work for You by Joe Beutler #3 Talk: Kudzu to Garden: Sustainable Augmented Development by Kent Beck #4 Talk: How Engineers Actually Use GenAI—Turn by Turn, at Bank Scale by Matt Beane #5 Talk: From Concept to Prototype: Leveraging Generative AI for Rapid Development in an Enterprise by Tapabrata "Topo" Pal #6 Talk: From Agile 2.0 to "Agile 3.0 +AI": Telenet's Unfiltered Journey by Barbara Arnst Johan Morel #7 Talk: Delivering Music and Spoken Word at One of the World’s Largest Tech Companies Michael Scott Winslow #8 Talk: Design Rules in Practice: Building Shared Capabilities at Datavant by Clare Hawthorne Carliss Baldwin #9 Talk: AI for Managers by John Willis and more great ones. I did enjoy this time watching these useful and practical talks and I strongly recommend you to check them out also specially if you are dealing with business, AI and technology challents in your organization, I can guarantee you that these source of practical knowledge is priceless. If you would like to know more about this event and watch all the talks, please check the #comments. #AI #Leadership #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery

What an incredible time at IT Revolution #ETLS2025 in Las Vegas! I was coming home last month with wonderful memories, new knowledge, great books, and a lot of excitement about the future of progressive delivery, DevOps, and "vibe coding." It was fantastic to share this experience with my brilliant team, XALT. A huge thank you to DryRun Security and Andrea Swaney for making it even more fun: I was excited to win a fantastic LEGO set in their raffle.

Beyond the Code: Designing Socio-Technical Systems for Real Change We talk a lot about architectures, pipelines, and platforms. But what about the system around them — the people, culture, and interactions that determine whether change actually sticks? We explore one of the hardest and most misunderstood challenges in software delivery: 👉 Building effective socio-technical systems that align people, technology, and purpose. 💡 Key takeaways: You can’t realise great architecture without empowered teams. Decentralising expertise accelerates delivery and resilience. Frameworks like Team Topologies, Cynefin, and Wardley Mapping help make sense of complexity. True change means designing for learning, safety, and flow — not just speed. If you’re leading teams through transformation, or trying to scale modern delivery practices, this is essential reading. 🔗 Read the full article on Medium: https://lnkd.in/eFBZTdDy #SocioTechnical #TeamTopologies #WardleyMapping #Leadership The Cynefin Company Simon Wardley

Fascinating!

Had so much fun at Heavybit event last night and got to catch up with Sha Ma about her new company, building a observability and optimization platform for companies building and consuming agentic apps and services. I can’t wait to see a demo in the next few weeks! Had fun updating her on Progressive Delivery book and it felt amazing to be able to give her a copy. As a fellow former Hubber, I can’t wait to hear more feedback.