Thread by @aleixmorgadas

I just talked with a very good friend working as Senior Engineer about what I would recommend him to learn as the next steps.

He is quite a product-mindset person. He is genuinely interested in why we do things from a customer perspective.

So, next steps? ...

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To have a more significant impact on the products, I suggested learning about:

- Fast Flow of Change with @TeamTopologies
- Situational Awareness with #WardleyMapping
- Domain Modelling to support Fast Flow of Change with #DDDesign

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Learning those points can unlock a new way to understand how _Value is delivered_ and why/how socio-technical systems impact a product, team, and business.

Moving from my impact as an individual to how the system impacts and how I can influence to the overall organization

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I recommended starting with this pack.

It introduces:
- How to continuous deliver value to the customer without blockers-handovers
- The different types of teams and how they support each other
- Measure Cognitive Load to help teams focus on business

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academy.teamtopologies.com/bundles/platfo…

After understanding this critical aspect of teams and Conway's Law. I suggested learning about #WardleyMapping with the @HiredThought fantastic course.

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learn.hiredthought.com/p/wardley-mapp…

To know more about #wardleymapping, this talk by @swardley is the one I attended in person and still recommend others to start with.

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By learning WM, it will help him to seek the right information and conversations to gain more situational awareness.

Able to drive the conversation of Why this over that, how others are doing it, we are focusing on the right thing?

Starting gaining Strategy "thinking"

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Helping to answer two questions:

- Why do we do what we do? (Purpose)
- Why should we do this over that? (Executional/Movement)

This will take years to practice, and there's no way to master it. You will always be a student here. Better start sooner than later. 😄

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After you took the Wardley Mapping Course

Thinking in Systems is a book that applied to several levels of my journey

It applies to EVERYTHING

- Technology
- Management
- Marketing
- Gardening
- Economy

It just opens a new dimension of understanding
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goodreads.com/book/show/3828…

And last but not least, I suggested taking the Independent Value Streams with #DDDesign.

Bring together:
- Teams
- Domain/Business Modelling
- Strategy
- Systems

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academy.teamtopologies.com/courses/indepe…

Why this over another cool technology, for example?

Because those tools bring you a new level of understanding of the system you're in.

You will be surprised how other elements that we are influenced by impact heavier than improving on X technology/methodology.

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Improving in only technology is a Local Maxima.
You cannot improve on a bigger scale.

You need to zoom out to know where to zoom in.

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But if you think learning technology, framework, or library is what you need now, then I suggest you learn about @testcontainers 😊

I might be biased 🤣

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