Aug 2025
Accelerate speed to market by ReBooting your delivery approach
What we are saying…
Practising Strategic Shrinkflation
“Don’t you just love how a small thing jumps to the top of the list?” Find out how to make this a strategy by Practising Strategic Shrinkflation
Blog by Alex Stokes
What’s happening at ReBoot Co. now…
Thanks to your feedback, we’re continuing with the summary section!
Our Team Topologies work is in full swing. A new case study that Matthew Skelton will publish about one of my first TT approach clients will be coming on the TT website soon, and my blog Team Topologies from the Trenches has just been invited to feature there too — very flattering! We’re also opening early access sign-ups for the on-line Team Topologies Masterclass Matthew and I are building together — message me if you’d like to get on the list. And don’t forget that the new Team Topologies book launch is coming!
On the client front, Tony is consistently deep in transformation delivery, while I’m juggling multiple clients and what has become a big focus for me: leadership facilitation. What started as a one-off request a few years ago has grown into a steady stream of offsites, helping exec teams align on goals, gel as leaders, and sharpen their strategy — always with a good dose of “ways of working.” It’s challenging work, but hugely rewarding. If your leadership team could use that kind of boost, I’d love to talk.
Meanwhile, Tessiro had its own offsite recently (yes, I facilitated our own team — tricky but rewarding!). With our first beta wrapping up, we’re digesting the results, and as good product citizens investing “the smallest amount of work to learn the next most important thing.” And yes, there’s a bit of a pivot brewing that could make Tessiro even more valuable. If you’re curious about visualising team and organisational data, keep in touch — we’d love to share what’s next.
Finally, I’ve been going back through ReBoot Co.’s eight years of work and harvesting our learning assets such as training and workshops. For years, we’ve underplayed this part of our business outside of Agile Fundamentals, to keep it within client work, but that’s changing. The next release will be Product Development Fundamentals as a self-directed learning module — you can sign up here to be notified when it’s out.
That’s the wrap for now — thanks for being part of this growing community. If any of these threads spark your interest — Team Topologies, leadership facilitation, Tessiro, or learning modules — reach out, we’d love to connect.
Cheers,
Alex
What we’ve been reading…
Agilists4Planet Conference
I’m going! Will you be there? Register for this free on-line 2 day event around the world by The Agilists4Sustainability community. Some great speakers and important topics!
September 17th to 18th
Ways of Working with AI…
Vibe Coding
The Shadow IT Problem No One Saw Coming
Article by Steve Fenton
How David Heinemeier Hansson uses AI
The CTO of 37signals uses AI in a seperate window - why? He can feel competence draining out of his fingers if he is not typing the code.
”To learn the guitar you have to put your fingers on the guitar.” Video on LinkedIn of David Heinemeier Hansson
Will AI become the new McKinsey?
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
New Yorker article By Ted Chiang
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…
Did you know the term “Scrum” came from a Harvard Business Review article (1986) by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka about product development at Honda, Canon, and Fuji-Xerox, describing small, cross-functional teams moving the ball downfield together. In the 1990s, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber applied that concept to software. You can read the original article “The New New Product Development Game” here! You might be surprised to read many of the ethos of Agile Software development approaches in such an early article, such as self organising teams and overlapping work.
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