Handbook
The reference for running the transformation: the model, the six changes, the transformation path, objections, failure modes, the toolkit. Written for the people accountable for the change.
What is in it
The first two parts explain the problem and the shape of the answer. The rest is the work: what to change, in what order, and how to keep it in place.
Why most features fail to move the metric they were built for, why dependencies between teams are the cause, and why cheap building made the problem urgent.
The team of teams: who owns what, and the rhythm the whole organization runs on.
The six changes, one chapter set each, with the decisions leadership makes and the practices teams run.
The path from the first pilot team to a scaled organization, the objections you will face, and what to do when things go wrong.
What mature operations look like, the failure modes to watch for, a maturity self-assessment, and the toolkit.
Part 3 in detail
Process first, because it is the change teams can start on their own. The other five are the ones leadership has to make for the first one to hold.
Research, design, building, teaming, and improvement as one continuous loop instead of a chain of handovers.
Teams that own a whole part of the customer experience, and the support teams that keep them independent.
Reviewing the outcome a team is moving rather than approving its plan and checking its status.
Funding standing teams rather than one-off projects, so the budget stops deciding the scope a year in advance.
Giving teams enough context and enough of the strategy to make the decision you would have made.
The skills, the shared knowledge, and the internal interfaces that let the tenth team work without waiting on the first nine.
Advance notice
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Read them together
The novel makes the organizational problem tangible. The handbook explains the practices and decisions involved in changing it.
Leaders and skeptics usually start with the novel. If you are the person running the transformation, read both.
Business novel · Out December 2026
The story of Ridgeway Airlines, a company that could build anything and still could not ship. A failed flagship project exposes the organizational trap, and one pilot team tests a different way to work.
It shows what the change feels like from the inside, which makes it a good book to share with the people you need to bring with you.
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