What We Can Learn from Deming about Building Great Products with John Willis

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Have you ever heard of W. Edwards Deming? What about... the Toyota way? Lean? DevOps?

John Willis is one of the pioneers of the DevOps movement, and, has recently released a book "Deming's Journey to the Profound Knowledge". In this latest episode of Quality Bits you'll hear more about this book, and the ideas of Deming that we can still learn so much from when wanting to build high-quality products and teams.
Find John on:

• His website: http://www.johnwillis.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwillisatlanta/

Mentions and resources:

• Article "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Books 📚 :
  • "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future" by John Willis
  • "The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations" by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
  • "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
  • "Toyota Kata" by Mike Rother
  • "The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition" by Steven J. Spear
  • "Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification" by Gene Kim, Steven J. Spear
  • "Out of the Crisis" by W. Edwards Deming
  • "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education" by W. Edwards Deming
  • "Thinking in Systems" by Donella H. Meadows

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