Helping technology leaders succeed through books (The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies), events (@ITRevSummit), research, podcasts (#TheIdealcast), and more.

Portland, OR
Joined July 2017
Today, we celebrate the release of The IT/OT Handbook by David Ariens and Willem van Lammeren! While DevOps improved the lives of many technology workers, a divide remains between IT and OT, and with their years of experience bridging these silos, the authors provide a long-needed path forward. This is the guide you have been waiting for, even if you didn't know it. Pick up your copy today! Amazon: itrev.io/4xB1R1A Barnes & Noble: itrev.io/46PAdSU Bookshop․org: itrev.io/47xgVT7
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A year ago, we released Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge. So much has changed in that year! We want to hear from you: ▪️ What vibe coding adventures have you had? ▪️ What "aha" moments have hit you? ▪️ Have you made a favorite tool or solved an annoying problem? ▪️ What are you still struggling to overcome?
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Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi celebrated the launch of their book Signals & Levers with the one and only Gene Kim! Check out this fascinating discussion about systems thinking, the world of The Phoenix Project, and more! itrev.io/4z0gRad #SystemsThinking
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It really helps books, especially from small publishers like ours, when you rate and review them on Amazon and other booksellers! This is how many people first hear about a book, or how they can tell if it will actually help them with their pain points. Take a couple of minutes to review your recent reads today! Our most recent releases can be reviewed on Amazon here: Hyperadaptive: itrev.io/47IPvZK Output to Outcome: itrev.io/4oQ0eZf Practice Makes Culture: itrev.io/4hjACUr Collective Confidence: itrev.io/4xBOM89 Signals & Levers: itrev.io/45Ggo05 The IT/OT Handbook: itrev.io/4xB1R1A
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Mid-inspection, a sub crew lost a weapons system. They rallied anyway, and the evaluator said he had never seen a crew perform better. Not luck. Two years of building belief in every sailor, one at a time. From André Martin’s Collective Confidence: itrev.io/4evnCIK
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Your teams are late on the release. Again. Sound familiar? In Signals & Levers, Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi show how to see through the illusions in software orgs, separate signal from noise, and find the levers that actually create lasting change. Order your copy today! Amazon: itrev.io/45Ggo05 Barnes & Noble: itrev.io/3TnFFJE Bookshop․org: itrev.io/4lHTlZW
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What experts are saying about Signals & Levers: “After a career spent in tech, wondering why all those dumb things keep happening, Signals and Levers comes along and explains what systems theory is, how it works, and how to apply it. Instead of a simple transactional system of ‘X input delivers Y output,’ this book has helped me understand that complex systems just don’t work that way. Instead, by making structured observations of a system’s signals, one can identify the levers available—the things one can change. And most importantly, the book helps interpret the new signals resulting from the levers pulled. I’ve been using what I learned to understand metabolic changes, political situations, and, of course, why things go crazy in a software factory. The analogies are clear, the illustrations charming, and the end-to-end example visited in each chapter makes it all easy to understand and apply." —Mysti Berry, Principal Technical Writer (alum Salesforce, Crowdstrike) Learn more: itrev.io/4AX8TA2
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"When an organization lives at one speed but is governed at another, value leaks at one end while risk compounds at the other." Tech can be rewired in weeks. Decision rights and accountability change over years. Why that gap matters for AI: itrev.io/4hB48Vg
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How do you build a team that can handle anything? In this Fast Company Book Bite, André Martin shares 5 lessons from Collective Confidence, from submarine crews to the Cajun Navy. Our favorite: make everyone the boss of something. itrev.io/3TSARfw
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Practice Makes Culture co-author Ronica Roth spoke at Princeton Agility about how organizations build cultures where business results and people both thrive, one practiced behavior at a time. Watch the full talk: itrev.io/4yK31ss
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AI makes output cheap. In a Leaders Perception interview, Output to Outcome author Mik Kersten explains how leaders can turn that output into business value by building operating models around outcomes that are defined, owned, and measured. itrev.io/4yFZifC
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Here's what the experts are saying about The IT/OT Handbook: “This book is a wonderful and overdue handbook for all Industry 4.0 practitioners who have been trying to access the value that we all know remains to be unlocked.” —Zev Arnold, Principal Director, Accenture
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Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi joined Shane Hastie on the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast to talk Signals & Levers: how AI-boosted code output exposes new bottlenecks, how leaders shape culture, and what makes an engineering org thrive. itrev.io/4ATE9jq
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A 2025 MIT study of 300 enterprise AI deployments found 95% delivered no measurable P&L impact. Same models, same vendors. A new paper in the Fall 2026 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal argues that the differentiator is the organization the tech lands in. itrev.io/4hB48Vg
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The best AI practices in most organizations stay buried in personal docs and chat threads. In MarTech, Hyperadaptive author Melissa Reeve shares how to capture those discoveries and turn them into a flywheel that spreads learning across teams. itrev.io/4zl2iOj
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Barry Stahl put Signals & Levers by Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi to work on a tricky architecture problem: intermittent data errors in a bus maintenance system. His case study maps the feedback loops and levers behind the bugs. itrev.io/4dvdAak
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What separates extraordinary teams from ordinary ones? André Martin says it’s collective confidence. He joined Claire Harbour and Antoine Tirard on Disrupt Your Career Author Chat to talk about his new book, Collective Confidence. itrev.io/4zeyEKo
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If you couldn't make Tuesday's launch webinar for The IT/OT Handbook, never fear! The authors recorded it, and you can catch every minute in this video. itrev.io/4hObiEx
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"Either we find a scalable way to manage AI, or it will manage us." —Output to Outcome by Mik Kersten Amazon: itrev.io/4oQ0eZf Barnes & Noble: itrev.io/4rEPhwg Bookshop․org: itrev.io/4j0vUvE
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