Organizational Flow — Appendix

Further Reading

Different from Acknowledgments, which credits the people and books that shaped a specific idea in this paper. This list runs the other direction — books worth reading next if something in these chapters resonated, in a similar spirit even where they weren't a direct influence.

• Team Topologies

  Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

  The clearest published treatment of what Cultivating Teams and Teams Around Capabilities argue for — team shapes, interaction modes, and boundaries drawn on purpose instead of by accident.

• Escaping the Build Trap

  Melissa Perri

  The companion to Funding What Doesn't End and Measuring Value — why organizations end up measuring what they built instead of what it changed, and what has to move in the funding model before that can be fixed.

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer

  Donella Meadows

  The systems-thinking foundation underneath It Grew Like That. If the forest metaphor in this paper resonates, this is where the underlying discipline comes from.

• Domain-Driven Design

  Eric Evans

  The deepest treatment available of bounded contexts and capabilities as the real unit of organizational design — the technical companion to the Capabilities chapter.

• Turn the Ship Around!

  L. David Marquet

  A submarine captain's account of giving control away instead of hoarding it — close in spirit to the self-selecting-teams story in Direction and Ownership.

• Accelerate

  Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim

  The research base behind the DORA metrics that Technology and Observing Organizations both defer to — properly operationalized and statistically validated, which the four indicators in this paper are not.

• The Fifth Discipline

  Peter Senge

  The original case for organizations as learning systems — a longer, more academic cousin of the argument the Learning chapter makes.