Delivering innovation at scale

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lean Enterprise was a landmark book, exploring how large enterprise could learn from start-ups and deliver innovation at scale — how they could respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products. Thoughtworks Technology Podcast catches up with two of the book’s authors to hear about its genesis, its impact and why there’s not likely to be a second edition.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to another edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. I'm one of your recurring hosts, Rebecca Parsons, the chief technology officer for ThoughtWorks. And I'm joined by another one of my hosts.
0:17.2	Mike Mason. I'm also one of your regular hosts, and I work closer with Rebecca at the
0:22.9	works as the Global Head of Technology.
0:24.9	And we are joined by two of the three co-authors of the book Lean Enterprise. The third
0:32.0	decline to participate. She's decided that being retired is far more important than being
0:36.9	on a podcast. She's having quite a nice time being retired is far more important than being on a podcast.
0:38.4	She's having quite a nice time being retired.
0:41.4	Thank you very much.
0:42.3	And so I will let you two gentlemen introduce yourself.
0:46.5	Barry, do you want to go first?
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:48.5	Hi, Barry O'Reilly.
0:50.1	So currently I'm a co-founder of Nobie Studios, which is a venture studio.
0:55.3	Our mission is to create 100 new companies over the next five years.
0:58.3	So I'm having lots of fun trying to build new companies and launch them.
1:02.2	So that's what I've been doing the last little while.
1:04.7	And Jess.
1:06.1	Yeah, I'm Jess Humble.
1:07.3	I am an SRE at Google, and I teach at UC Berkeley and written some other books, including most recently Accelerate, with Dr. Nicole Forsprin and Jean Kim.
1:18.2	And Joanne is happily retired, so good on her. So let's shout out to Joanne, wherever she is in Vancouver Island and enjoying the sunshine, I'm sure.
1:26.4	Well, she posted a photo on Facebook of her, or John, her husband posted a Facebook of her,
1:33.3	a photo on Facebook of her on the beach this morning.
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