Patrik Gustafsson

This is a short and easy to read book on Bottleneck. Ching him self pitches it as a alternative/complement to “the game”. I think this is a good sized and on point book to get people starting to thing about theory of constraint. Comparing to “The game” this has no Story framing, and not the assumption of “Gaining money” being the only thinkable goal for a business.

Being a agile leadership coach I do train and improve organisationens towards culture of learning and trust. This books starts with science around different company cultures what strengths and weaknesses they have. It was good to learn about other company cultures strength.

The other articles in this book also have high quality and where spot on. The final article also stood out to me. It was about tempered radicals how to inspire change in a soft and steady way.

This book is a good overview of progressive cooperations in the same category as humanocrazy and reinventing organisations. I liked the book and the content and think this could be a more approachable version of ithe mentioned books. It is like a polished keynote speech. A bit to author centered. But would give value to most who would like to start thinking in the terms of collaborative cooperations.

I associate jobs in this book to user stories. This book gives a slightly different perspective and a thought through methodology to pick improvements for a product or organization.

Interesting if you are going to role play a general or ambitious warrior.

Read it because it is a classic. Not worth the time unless your friends about you with it.

Inspiring collection of stories. A good book to inject inspiration for more innovativ ways of working or for trainers to get anecdotes from.

Wow what a masterpiece!

Myst read for Devs and there co-workers.

This book is now my OKr go to book. If your org is considering that technique or are struggling with working in the same direction read this book.

One thing i finally understood, is the use of goals that is too large to be reached or feels that way. As reaching these goals at 75% is still a victory. They are used for direction and not estimation of where we can go. So looking at it as the direction to move towards, not an expectation to reach we can create alignment.
Storytime: When first introduced to such goal it was not explained to me the rest of the goal, the goal fell flat. It did not help that it was expressed in measurements, we had not access to, nor ever been shown to the department.

I always had problems with measured goals (SMART) with timelines as so many assumptions needed to be made. But setting the objective without measure ments then complement them with the key results that carries the target values, and assumptions but are not as set in stone.

I think using OKrs could be a way to create a shared direction in an organisation, without locking in to rigid and slow decision hirakis. I also see that it could be mimicked into a rigid decision hierarki if only the format is Copied but not the way to set the OKrs, losing a lot of the power of OKrs.

The values and techniques in this book will take you miles into product management.

Start visualizing the work you are doing by Torres method or your own, but get started. And own up to your decisions and start driving the work.

I would recommend this book to product managers, Senior Developers, engineering managers, and their coaches.

This book narrows in on user stories and connects to the process around them.
It is not about how stories shall be written. But how to use them, what's the purpose and how to make the most of them.

A couple of key points
* It's not about what's written on them it's about the context they provide.
* “Stories are Actually Like Asteroids” - Ie breaks them down into smaller stories but not all at once.
* It is all about the user and discovering what is needed.

I like it. But also think some passages are hard to keep focus during. Even though I love to follow the overarching storyline. I will read the next but will take a break in between as each book has felt long.

Liked:
Marshall has a Great voice and is inspirering in his stores. I believe NVC us a useful tool to build an strengthen relationships.

Learned:
NVC can in addition to guide how one speaks, guide how one listens And be used when mediating conflicts between others.

Lacked:
Most evidence was anecdotes if the author, or the east experience of the author. I think this kind of claims should include more science.

Longed for:
Though it explains the steps of NVC I think this should go and explain or reference other techniques needed for this to be successful. Perhaps low-arousal approach etc..

A good introduction to social sciences. I might read it again to catch some more learning.

Good if you ar technical. But the focus on technical details like the TDD comparison do throw others of before reaching the chapters relevant to them. Also a lot of terminology is not explained as it is used in the book. Making it more of a good book for people in the know than for persons who wants to learn BDD.

Mer av inspiration än bra ledarskap. Några riktigt dåliga exempel på ledarskap som visserligen motverkades, men inte diskuterades eller problematiserades.

The problem with this book is my attention span.

There are multiple parallel threads, all good stories, but if i zoom out i suddenly somewhere completly different. After a while i want to rest my fiction reading and start a facts book, but this book never ends.

With above exception I do love the stories, I am curious about the world, and started to look at for the next book as soon as I finished this. But forced my self to take a break and recharge with some leadership books. :)

Some parts was great. Others where boring.

Interesting now when metaverse is in the making.

Re read it a second time. It was still interesting, I really liked it. What would you done?

I love this universe,this book feels a less innovative though!

I really liked the rainwild stories. The other once was good too.

Live ship traders is one of the best series ever written. Perhaps the best fantasy series ever.

This book is about having a scientifc mindset on what you know. Its core tenent is to evaluate and reavalute what you know. Being open to ideas.

I connect this book to the idea of
* Growth mindest vs Fixed mind.
* Agile emperical thinking
* Learning organizations
* Non-violent comunication.

I value what Grant writes about Conventional vs. Alternative View of Intelligence, The Blessing of Being Wrong, Motivational Talking, The power of imposter syndrome.

The book is full of tools to help you and others to think scientifically.

In the shaper about Motivational Talking, includes the following points:
1. open-ended questions
2. reflective listening, and
3. encouragement to change.

This is a good starting point for building a growth mindset or a learning organisation.

This is a true mastery of work. The series about the live ships stands on it own as a a groundbreaking fantasy.