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Posts by Stephen Walters

When we wrote Team Topologies in 2019, I never imagined these ideas would reach beyond IT. Healthcare, law, government… the lesson is the same: clarity of intent drives speed and meaningful work.

📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

When we wrote Team Topologies in 2019, I never imagined these ideas would reach beyond IT. Healthcare, law, government… the lesson is the same: clarity of intent drives speed and meaningful work. 📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

When we wrote Team Topologies in 2019, I never imagined these ideas would reach beyond IT. Healthcare, law, government… the lesson is the same: clarity of intent drives speed and meaningful work.

📗 Grab your copy → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

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Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

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Benchmark your Organizational Effectiveness and Alignment Assess your current and near-future approaches and capabilities that shape effectiveness and alignment within your organization or department - in the context of fast flow

Agility is NOT intuitive. Very soon you hit dependencies, work queues, high cognitive load, and other things that block agility. It's vital to use shared language and mental models, including clear team boundaries that work well for value flow.

➡️ Benchmark your org: confluxhq.com/benchmark

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Mine is along the same lines…not realising sooner that I should have been asking “Why?” before just doing.

Even in today’s environment we still find solutions being built before the problem is even known.

In the words of the Midge Ure song, “Answers to Nothing”

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Accelerating Developer Velocity With Effective Platform Teams A look at three key considerations for leaders building strong platform teams.

Well, looky here! The New Stack were kind enough to publish my article on the importance of product teams over technologies. I'd love to hear what you think! thenewstack.io/accelerating...

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There is an element of Vale fans that are very fickle. We were in a bad run over Nov/Dec but that had more to do with Garrity being out injured than Moore.

I have been surprised at Bromley. Started really well, then a massive dip, but have done well overall in 1st season since promotion

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An honest and great write up. Best of luck for the rest of the season and for next

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Men who stop funding into violence against women who have previously been accused of assaults on women…tells you enough about what they think of women, and that includes your sisters, mothers, grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters!

Think on that if you voted for this!

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@philjbowers.bsky.social THE BEN GARRITY EFFECT!!! 🏆

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So the stats for without Garrity get worse. Title chance with him. Definite relegation without. Why are other players not stepping up? #pvfc

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Software Development Trends: Simplification, Upskilling, Comprehensive AI… | VMblog Software and how it's developed have changed permanently in the past few years. AI has revolutionized software development, transforming it from a manual…

Just what will be the impact of AI in 2025? Well, theres going to be ups, and downs, but expect it to be positive. Read more here

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Different plans for today mate 😋🔥🍖🍺

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Let’s hope he’s back sooner rather than later. Those stats suggest we won’t get promotion without him

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@philjbowers.bsky.social I know you like a stat on #PVFC. How about this one

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#IStandWithZelensky

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In 1930’s Germany, that army of ‘private citizens’ were called Brownshirts!

People would ‘disappear’ without trace

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Stephen Walters on LinkedIn: Practicalities of the VSRA: The Dependency Mapping Crystal Ball Part 3 of the blog series, 'Practicalities of the VSRA' is now live, and I am happy to announce collaboration work on this with the esteemed Steve Pereira…

As you consider the constraints in your value stream, are you considering all dimensions. Not just the value stream in question, but other dependencies, and also the impacts of change to your org structure over time. Thanks to Steve Pereira for his collaboration.

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GitLab 17.9 released with GitLab Duo Self-Hosted available in GA GitLab 17.9 released with GitLab Duo Self-Hosted available in GA,the ability to run multiple GitLab Pages sites with parallel deployments, the option to add project files to Duo Chat in VS Code and Je...

🔐 Fine-grained Job Tokens
⏰ Custom Token Expiration
🛡️ Group Pages Access
🔍 Enhanced Risk Data
🔧 Custom Pipeline Stages for execution policies

Ready to upgrade? Get @gitlab.com 17.9:
👉 about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/02/20/gitlab-17-9-released/

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🚀 @gitlab.com 17.9 supercharges your DevSecOps with self-hosted AI, enhanced security, and streamlined workflows!

🤖 GitLab Duo Self-Hosted
🌐 Parallel Pages Deployments
🔄 Automatic Pipeline Cleanup
🧠 Enhanced AI Context in IDEs
📝 Wiki Comments

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Patriotism is seeing the best in your country and celebrating it. It's not seeing the worst in other countries and blaming it.

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Stephen Walters on LinkedIn: Overcome AI sprawl with a Value Stream Management approach The principle purpose of #AI is to remove or overcome constraints in the mundane and repeatable actions we all have to perform in delivering value to the…

#AI Sprawl is a real danger. Value Stream Management is the only way of ensuring an effective AI strategy

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Hybrid event: The Value Stream Reference Architecture | BCS Please join us for this free event, which is the first of a short series of events associated with DevOps. Monday 13 January, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

A Happy New Year and I am happy to announce I’ll be speaking at the University of Staffordshire on 13th January. Registration and attendance is free to this hybrid event.

You can get more details and register at the link below

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Merry Christmas everyone! You were all very good this year which kept me busy for one last shift.

Time for some downtime and see you all in the New Year!

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Value Stream Reference Architecture and Outcome Mapping In the first of this series of articles, Practicalities of the VSRA: Are you seeing the whole value stream map?, you will have seen how we used the vsra-fine-flow-report pdfs produced to identify t…

A Value Stream Reference Architecture can ensure you align your Organizational and System Architectures, but you need to ensure a focus on Business Outcomes too. Using Outcome Mapping from Flow Engineering and integrating to your VSRA achieves that. Read here.

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"A Fallacy of Software: If it works, and we don't change anything, it will keep working." - Jessica Kerr

"A Fallacy of Software: If it works, and we don't change anything, it will keep working." - Jessica Kerr

"A Fallacy of Software: If it works, and we don't change anything, it will keep working." - Jessica Kerr

#robustsoftware #intentionalarchitecture

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Stephen Walters on LinkedIn: #vsra Sometimes it can seem like just a bit of fun, but this fun had a few important messages in it for the software IT Industry. 1. As part of this we got to in a…

I had a great day with partners in Madrid, but for all of the fun, there is an important message for IT Organizations

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Craig Statham on LinkedIn: #vsra #vsmc #teamtopologies #devops #fine Wow! The VSRA community has now surpassed 100 members! When Stephen Walters and I first started chatting about VSM and how to apply Team Topologies in that…

We’ve reached 100 VSRA Community members! 🙌🏻

VSRA-community.org

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And we’re live in 30 minutes!!! #Flowtopia2024

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