April 2025
Accelerate speed to market by ReBooting your delivery approach
This month's newsletter features an interview of Alex Stokes in Who is Agile, youtube channel, why Jeff Paton says everything’s a product, cautionary tales from history by Nigel Dalton - relevant to our new AI hungry organisations, AI takes on agile teams and the effects of reorganising for flow …dip in!
What we are saying…
Who is Agile?
Yves Hanoulle recently Interviewed Alexandra Stokes for the video edition of Who is Agile On his channel, you can find interviews with agilists around the world. All answering the same 10 questions....Visit to find out Alex’s answers!
Interview of Alex Stokes
What we’ve been reading…
Everything’s a product
“What is a product?” Jeff Paton reckons that EVERYTHING. Everything is a product as long as you look at it through a product lens.
Article by Jeff Paton
What AI has to say about that…
The most dangerous LLM is in your head - it's how you imagine your org works.
Our modern workplaces are complex, entangled, perplexing, and nothing like the auto industry or steel-making assembly lines of 125 years ago. Yet somehow the Taylorian management methods that emerged to run those factories are getting reanimated with beliefs about LLMs and agentic software.
Article by Nigel Dalton
The Death of Agile Teams
Could you do your job entirely by yourself? Is a team necessary in the AI age? Paddy Dhanda explores how AI is changing Agile practices.
Agile in the Age of AI
One consequence of AI-empowered teams is that we'll likely have smaller teams, and more of them, predicts Henrik Kniberg
People at Work…
Work Produces People: The Far-reaching Effects of Organisational Design
The machinelike command and control bureaucracy is not working, how do we create participative models where the people design the work they do?
Article by Trond Hjorteland
Work Re-imagined and re-organised for flow
The Enterprise-Level Rewiring
A Team Topologies case study of The Telenet Transformation from the Team Topologies blogs, among the emergent principles, a shift from power-based siloed thinking to networked ecosystem thinking by Barbara Arnst, VP at Telenet and Team Topologies Advocate
Watching…
ReBoot Co. Agile Fundamentals
We've re-edited and relaunched our flagship online training course! This 18-part video series, led by co-founder Alex Stokes, takes you from Agile history and principles to essential practices and techniques for high-performing teams. Join our online learning community for $200 AUD per seat, or contact us for significant group discounts for your organisation.
Origin Stories…
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was created in 2001 when a bunch of like minded folks came together in a ski lodge in Snowbird Utah, as they were uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it and distilled their common 4 values and 12 principles.
Did you know there’s a plaque commemorating this in the Aspen room where they met? You can see a few pics when Alistair Cockburn one of the original signatories returned for a visit recently.
Deals…
Alex’s book “Empowered Agile Transformation - Beyond the Framework“ is discounted for Australian readers while stocks last, or pick it up on amazon here.
ReBoot Co. are proud to be a Team Topologies APAC Advocate