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A symposium for govtech innovators and change agents with the audacity to continuously ship outcomes to prod.
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1. a willingness to take bold personal risks to continuously deliver valuable software users love, to prod.

2. having a bravery to deploy to prod that could offend others.
MAKE SHIP HAPPEN

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Our deliberately crafted agenda on people, process, and technology included critical methods to propel continuous delivery of outcomes in prod and develop a mindset for meaningful change.
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prod-based Learning
No sales. No theater. Armed with experience, lessons, and best practices, we shared knowledge to start, scale and improve the next generation of government software organizations.
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History is watching. Prodacity sets the standard for how to do DevOps in government. This year, the focus was on: organizational change, bureaucracy hacking, tactics, and implementation.
What was covered

Topics

From understanding how to think big in the general sessions, to collaborative roundtable discussions and interactive playbook workshops, the curated program was designed to empower every discipline in govtech with invaluable strategies to tackle complex problems.

Think Big

General Session

Transformation Strategy

Organizational Design

Leadership Principles

Operating Models

Hack Bureaucracy

Track Talks

Leadership

Product

Procurement

Experience Reports

Rise Up Roundtables

Create Outcomes

Track Talks

Leadership

Product

Procurement

Experience Reports
New Starts
Legacy Modernization
Performance

REAL TALK

Speaker Lineup

This year, we invited you to experience thoughtfully crafted messages from over 50 industry and government experts, thought leaders, and visionaries that educated and empowered you to Think Big, Hack Bureaucracy, and Create Outcomes. Check out the lineup for Prodacity 2023!

07:30 AM
Breakfast/Registration [1.5 HRS]
09:00 AM
Govtech: Delivering a Future Where Fewer Bad Things Happen Because of Bad Software
bryon kroger -
Founder & CEO, Rise8




9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
09:20 AM
Keynote: The Gravity of the Situation
Lieutenant general Michael groen - US Marine Corps, Retired




9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
09:45 AM
Software Delivery Performance and Mission Success
nathen harvey - Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud




9:35 AM - 10:10 AM
10:20 AM
networking Break [30 min]
10:50 AM
Govtech Platforms Don’t Have to Suck
bryon kroger - Founder & CEO, Rise8




10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
11:35 AM
The Art and Science of Continuous ATO
ROB monroe - Product Manager, Rise8




11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
12:15 PM
LUNCH [1 hr] with lunch & Learn at 12:45 - DevSecOps 2.0: OpenShift your development into gear - presented by Red hat
1:15 pm
What Great Enterprise Software Development Looks Like
mik freedman - Sr. Director, VMWare




11:55 AM - 12:25 PM
1:45 PM
The Value Flywheel Effect




1:25 PM - 1:50 PM
david anderson - Author & Technical Leader
2:35 PM
Leadership Principles: Avoiding Black Holes




1:55 PM - 2:25 PM
Paul gaffney - Change Agent & Transformation Artist
3:20 PM
networking break [30 min]
3:50 PM
Fireside: Digital Operating Models & Organizing for Success
siobhán mc feeney - Chief Technology Office, Kohl's




2:30 PM - 2:30 PM
4:35 PM
Yet Another Upskilling Talk
adam furtado - Founder & CEO, Sagely




3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
5:00 PM
Powerhouse Reflections
Kim crider - Founding Partner at Elara Nova, Former USSF CTIO
meagan metzger - CEO, Dcode
lauren knausenberger - Chief Innovation Officer at SAIC, Former Chief Information Officer at Department of the Air Force




3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

Panel

5:30 PM
Happy Hour!
All - Make Ship Happen




4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
6:30 PM
day 1 end! [14.5 HRS]
08:00 AM
Breakfast [1 HR]
09:00 AM
Welcome to Day 2!




9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
09:05 AM
Corporate Rebels - Make Work More Fun
JOOST MInNAAR - Co-Founder & Author, Corporate Rebels
PIM DE MORREE - Co-Founder & Author, Corporate Rebels




9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
09:35 AM
Hack Your Bureaucracy
MARINA NITZE - Co-Author & Former VA CTO
NICK SINAI - Co-Author & Former US Deputy CTO




9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
10:10 AM
networking break: corporate rebels & hack your bureaucracy Book signing [30 min]
10:40 AM
Hack Your Force Design: Where do Software Delivery Orgs Belong?
Max Reele - Air Force Service Lead, Defense Innovation Unit

Leadership





10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Platform Hacks: Getting the Right Tools in the Right Environment
duong hang - Deputy Director, DoD Platform One

Product





10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Hacquisition Strategy
jonathan mostowski - Co-Author, Partner & Fellow

Procurement





10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
11:05 AM
transition [10 MIN]
11:15 AM
Get That Money
matt macgregor - Principal Acquisition Leader, MITRE

Leadership





10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
Hacking the Platform Developer Experience
marc ray - Mission Manager, Defense Unicorns
andrew greenE - Unicorn Engineer, Defense Unicorns

Product





10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
All the Special Authorities
peter modigliani - VP, Beacon Global Strategies

Procurement





10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
11:40 AM
Transition [10 min]
11:50 AM
Hacking Government Talent Management
kyleigh russ - Sr. Advisor, US Office of Personnel Management & Co-Founder, Govern For America





11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
12:15 pM
lunch [1 hr] with lunch & Learn at 12:45 - mission possible: accelerating software delivery in the federal landscape - presented by planview
1:15 pM
Transforming Compliance Bureaucracy into Continuous Risk Management
lynette sherriLl - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information Security & Chief Information Security Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs
carrie lee - Deputy Chief Information Officer, Product Engineering Service, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Panel






11:55 AM - 12:25 PM
1:55 PM
transition [10 min]
2:05 PM
Fireside Report - Hacking the DIB
josh marcuse - Director of Strategic Initiatives, Google Public Sector
Lauren Bedula - Managing Director and National Security Technology Practice Lead, Beacon Global Strategies
Kelleigh Cosentino bilms - Principal, Oliver Wyman
Thom Kenney - Director, AI and Digital Transformation, Google Public Sector

Leadership






1:25 PM - 1:55 PM
Experience Report 2
Dave Mazik - Director, VA Lighthouse, US Department of Veterans Affairs
andrew fichter - Deputy Director, VA Lighthouse Developer Experience, US Department of Veterans Affairs

leadership






1:25 PM - 1:55 PM
2:40 pm
Transition [10 min]
2:50 PM
CMS Experience Report
lloyd evans - Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Aquia

Product






1:25 PM - 1:55 PM
Fireside Experience Report 4 - SWF Contracting Retro
lori-ann rissler - Principal, Decisive Point
victoria wyler - Growth, Defense Unicorns

Procurement






2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
3:25 PM
networking BREAK [30 MIN]
3:55 pm
Rise Up Roundtable

Leadership






2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
Rise Up Roundtable

Product






2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
Rise Up Roundtable

Procurement






2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
4:40 pm
Transition [5 min]
4:45 pm
Hackathon Recap





3:55 PM - 4:25 PM
5:00 PM
day 2 end! [15 hr]
08:00 AM
Breakfast [1 HR]
09:00 AM
Farther, Faster, Far Less Drama
JANICE FRASER - Author & Innovation Leader
JASON FRASER - Author, Advisor & Leader at VMWare Tanzu Labs




9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
09:30 AM
Continuous Delivery is your Superpower
jez humble - Site Reliability Engineer, Co-Author, Lecturer




9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
10:00 AM
networking break: Farther, faster, far less drama book signing [35 min]
10:35 AM
Organizing for Success Part 2: Aligning to Deliver Value and Mission Effects
micheal snyder - Sr. Director, Metronome

Leadership





10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Fireside Chat: Building a Prod Playbook for the Decisive Decade
Nick miller - Federal Lead - AWS Marketplace, AWS
lathan turner - EVP, Global Public Sector, Second Front Systems

Product





10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Tradewinds Contract Vehicle
bonnie evangelista - Tradewinds Execution Lead, DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Procurement





10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
11:00 AM
Transition [5 min]
11:05 AM
Large Scale Transformation Playbook
felicia schwartz - Managing Partner, formula.monks

Leadership





11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Complexity: A Potential Enemy of Delivery
mike lanciano - Director of Engineering Growth, Clarity

Product





11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Taking the ‘Death’ out of the Valley: Dispelling Common Myths About the Valley of Death
russelL long - Founder & CEO, Long Capture

Procurement





11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
11:35 AM
Transition [10 min]
11:45 AM
Make Work More Visible
dominica degrandis - Author & Principal Flow Advisor, Planview

Leadership





11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Your Data, Your Models, Your Intelligence. All Private. (AI Demo)
kwasi ankomah - Head of AI, formula.monks

Product





11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Avoiding Competition Theater
matt nelson - CTO, BESPIN

Procurement





11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
12:15 PM
lunch [1 hr] with lunch & Learn at 12:45 - A LIVE, FUN INTERACTIVE DEMO About Dark Launching Using Feature Management - Presented by Launchdarkly
1:15 PM
The Data Pyramid
Melissa L. sayers, LTC - Operations Research Systems Analyst, United States Army - First Army

Leadership





12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Air-gap Platform Deployments
Andrew greene - Unicorn Engineer, Defense Unicorns

Product





12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Leveraging Partnerships to Accelerate Accreditation
mamie cruse - VP, Partnerships & Alliances, Second Front Systems
paul bockelman - Director, Technical Solutions, Google Public Sector
josh dries - ISV Partner Development Manager, Google Public Sector

Procurement





12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
1:40 PM
transition [10 min]
1:50 PM
Panel: The Future of Autonomy
msgt donald "chee" gansberger -Software Director - AFWERX Autonomy Prime, US Air Force
tyler sweatt - CEO, Second Front Systems
major victor lopez - Chief of Autonomy Operations - AFWERX SPARK, US Air Force
john goodson - CEO, Darkhive

Leadership






1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
Design in Govtech
jennifer herzberg - Sr. Product Designer, Skylight

Product






1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
FAR Better Contracting & SBIR Superpowers
kristina botelho - Acquisition & Innovation Leader, US Air Force

Procurement






1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
2:15 PM
Transition [5 min]
2:20 PM
Conference Closing Remarks





4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
2:40 PM
networking break - booth last call [20 min]
3:00 PM

Workshop

BONUS: New-Starts





2:35 PM - 4:05 PM

Workshop

BONUS: Legacy Modernization





2:35 PM - 4:05 PM

Workshop

BONUS: Continuous Improvement





2:35 PM - 4:05 PM
4:30 PM
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Day 1

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Govtech: Delivering a Future Where Fewer Bad Things Happen Because of Bad Software
Govtech: Delivering a Future Where Fewer Bad Things Happen Because of Bad Software

Bryon Kroger - Founder & CEO, Rise8

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The Gravity of the Situation
The Gravity of the Situation

Lt. General Michael Groen (Retired)

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Software Delivery Performance and Mission Success
Software Delivery Performance and Mission Success

Nathen Harvey - Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud

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Govtech Platforms Don't Have to Suck
Govtech Platforms Don't Have to Suck

Bryon Kroger - Founder & CEO, Rise8

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The Art and Science of Continuous ATO
The Art and Science of Continuous ATO

Rob Monroe - Product Manager, Rise8

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What Great Enterprise Software Development Looks Like
What Great Enterprise Software Development Looks Like

Mik Freedman - Sr. Director, VMWare

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The Value Flywheel Effect
The Value Flywheel Effect

David Anderson - Author & Technical Leader

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Leadership Principles: Avoiding Black Holes
Leadership Principles: Avoiding Black Holes

Paul Gaffney - Change Agent & Transformation Artist

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Digital Operating Models & Organizing for Success
Digital Operating Models & Organizing for Success

Siobhán Mc Feeney - CTO, Kohl's

Bryon Kroger - Founder & CEO, Rise8

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Yet Another Upskilling Talk
Yet Another Upskilling Talk

Adam Furtado - Founder & CEO, Sagely


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Leadership Reflections
Leadership Reflections

Kim Crider - Founding Partner at Elara Nova, Former USSF CTIO

Meagan Metzger - CEO, Dcode

Lauren Knausenberger - Chief Innovation Officer at SAIC, Former Chief Information Officer at Department of the Air Force

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[Red Hat] DevSecOps with Secure Software Supply Chain on OpenShift
[Red Hat] DevSecOps with Secure Software Supply Chain on OpenShift

Arian Salgado - Solution Architect, Red Hat

Day 2

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Make Work More Fun
Make Work More Fun

Pim de Morree - Co-Founder & Author, Corporate Rebels

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Hack Your Bureaucracy
Hack Your Bureaucracy

Marina Nitze - Co-Author & Former VA CTO

Nick Sinai - Co-Author & Former US Deputy CTO

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Hack Your Force Design: Where do Software Delivery Orgs Belong?
Hack Your Force Design: Where do Software Delivery Orgs Belong?

Max Reele - Air Force Service Lead, Defense Innovation Unit

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Platform Hacks: Getting the Right Tools in the Right Environment
Platform Hacks: Getting the Right Tools in the Right Environment

Duong Hang - Deputy Director, DoD Platform One

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Hacquisition Strategy
Hacquisition Strategy

Jonathan Mostowski - Co-Author, Partner & Fellow

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Get That Money
Get That Money

Matt MacGregor - Principal Acquisition Leader, MITRE

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Hacking the Platform Developer Experience
Hacking the Platform Developer Experience

Marc Ray - Mission Manager, Defense Unicorns

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All the Special Authorities
All the Special Authorities

Peter Modigliani - VP, Beacon Global Strategies

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Hacking Government Talent Management
Hacking Government Talent Management

Kyleigh Russ - Sr. Advisor, US Office of Personnel Management & Co-Founder, Govern For America

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Transforming Compliance Bureaucracy into Continuous Risk Management
Transforming Compliance Bureaucracy into Continuous Risk Management

Lynette Sherrill - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information Security & Chief Information Security Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Carrie Lee - Deputy Chief Information Officer, Product Engineering Service, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Rob Monroe - Product Manager, Rise8

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Hacking the Defense Industrial Base
Hacking the Defense Industrial Base

Josh Marcuse - Director of Strategic Initiatives, Google Public Sector

Lauren Bedula - Managing Director and National Security Technology Practice Lead, Beacon Global Strategies

Kelleigh Cosentino Bilms - Principal, Oliver Wyman

Thom Kenney - Director, AI and Digital Transformation, Google Public Sector

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Experience Report: VA Lighthouse
Experience Report: VA Lighthouse

Dave Mazik - Director, VA Lighthouse, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Andrew Fichter - Deputy Director, VA Lighthouse Developer Experience, US Department of Veterans Affairs

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CMS Experience Report
CMS Experience Report

Lloyd Evans - Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Aquia

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Retro: Software Factory Contracting
Retro: Software Factory Contracting

Lori-Ann Rissler - Principal, Decisive Point

Victoria Wyler - Growth, Defense Unicorns

Bryon Kroger - Founder & CEO, Rise8

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[Planview] Accelerating Software Delivery in the Federal Landscape
[Planview] Accelerating Software Delivery in the Federal Landscape

Daniel Feminella - Sr. Value Stream Architect, Planview

Jim Tranquill - Regional Sales Manager, Planview

Day 3

Farther, Faster, Far Less Drama
Farther, Faster, Far Less Drama
Farther, Faster, Far Less Drama

Janice Fraser - Author & Innovation Leader

Jason Fraser - Author, Advisor & Leader at VMWare Tanzu Labs

Continuous Delivery is Your Superpower
Continuous Delivery is Your Superpower
Continuous Delivery is Your Superpower

Jez Humble - Site Reliability Engineer, Co-Author, Lecturer

Organizing for Success Part 2: Aligning to Deliver Value and Mission Effects
Organizing for Success Part 2: Aligning to Deliver Value and Mission Effects
Organizing for Success Part 2: Aligning to Deliver Value and Mission Effects

Michael Snyder - Sr. Director, Metronome

Building a Prod Playbook for the Decisive Decade
Building a Prod Playbook for the Decisive Decade
Building a Prod Playbook for the Decisive Decade

Nick Miller - Federal Lead - AWS Marketplace, AWS

Lathan Turner - EVP, Global Public Sector, Second Front Systems

Tradewinds Contract Vehicle
Tradewinds Contract Vehicle
Tradewinds Contract Vehicle

Bonnie Evangelista - Tradewinds Execution Lead, DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Large Scale Transformation Playbook
Large Scale Transformation Playbook
Large Scale Transformation Playbook

Felicia Schwartz - Founder & CEO, Bridgeway Digital Advisors

Complexity: A Potential Enemy of Delivery
Complexity: A Potential Enemy of Delivery
Complexity: A Potential Enemy of Delivery

Mike Lanciano - Director of Engineering Growth, Clarity

Dispelling Common Myths About the Valley of Death
Dispelling Common Myths About the Valley of Death
Dispelling Common Myths About the Valley of Death

Russ Long - Founder & CEO, Long Capture

Make Work More Visible
Make Work More Visible
Make Work More Visible

Dominica DeGrandis - Author & Principal Flow Advisor, Planview

Your Data, Your Models, Your Intelligence. All Private. (AI Demo)
Your Data, Your Models, Your Intelligence. All Private. (AI Demo)
Your Data, Your Models, Your Intelligence. All Private. (AI Demo)

Kwasi Ankomah - Head of AI, formula.monks

Avoiding Competition Theater
Avoiding Competition Theater
Avoiding Competition Theater

Matt Nelson - CTO, BESPIN

The Data Pyramid
The Data Pyramid
The Data Pyramid

Melissa Sayers, LTC - Operations Research Systems Analyst, United States Army - First Army

Demo: Air-gap Platform Deployments
Demo: Air-gap Platform Deployments
Demo: Air-gap Platform Deployments

Andrew Greene - Unicorn Engineer, Defense Unicorns

Leveraging Partnerships to Accelerate Accreditation
Leveraging Partnerships to Accelerate Accreditation
Leveraging Partnerships to Accelerate Accreditation

Mamie Cruse - VP, Partnerships & Alliances, Second Front Systems

Paul Bockelman - Director, Technical Solutions, Google Public Sector

Josh Dries - ISV Partner Development Manager, Google Public Sector

The Future of Autonomy
The Future of Autonomy
The Future of Autonomy

MSGT Donald "Chee" Gansberger - Software Director - AFWERX Autonomy Prime, US Air Force

Tyler Sweatt - CEO, Second Front Systems

Major Victor Lopez - Chief of Autonomy Operations - AFWERX SPARK, US Air Force

John Goodson - CEO, Darkhive

Design in Govtech
Design in Govtech
Design in Govtech

Jennifer Herzberg - Sr. Product Designer, Skylight

FAR Better Contracting & SBIR Superpowers
FAR Better Contracting & SBIR Superpowers
FAR Better Contracting & SBIR Superpowers

Kristina Botelho - Acquisition & Innovation Leader, US Air Force

[LaunchDarkly] Dark Launching with Feature Management Live Demo
[LaunchDarkly] Dark Launching with Feature Management Live Demo
[LaunchDarkly] Dark Launching with Feature Management Live Demo

Sarah Mazer - Federal CTO, LaunchDarkly

Recoding America

- Jennifer Pahlka

Government at all levels has limped into the digital age, offering online services that can feel even more cumbersome than the paperwork that preceded them and widening the gap between the policy outcomes we intend and what we get. Jennifer Pahlka shows why we must stop trying to move the government we have today onto new technology and instead consider what it would mean to truly recode American government.

Team Topologies offers a model for designing effective software teams, focusing on four team types and three interaction patterns to optimize delivery and software health. It guides organizations in evolving team structures and communication for improved software architecture and organizational growth.

Extreme Ownership

- Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's "Extreme Ownership" details leadership lessons from their SEAL team's challenges in Ramadi, Iraq, emphasizing that leadership is crucial at all levels for success. They apply their combat experience to business, teaching leadership principles through Echelon Front to various industries. The book offers strategies like Decentralized Command and Leading Up the Chain, showing how to implement SEAL tactics in any organization to foster high-performance teams and achieve success.

Unreasonable Hospitality

- Will Guidara

Will Guidara elevated Eleven Madison Park to the world's top restaurant by merging radical reinvention with exceptional hospitality. He crafted unforgettable experiences, nurtured a culture of ownership among staff, and demonstrated how transformative hospitality can turn everyday transactions into remarkable encounters, advocating this approach for all businesses.

Wiring a Winning Organization

- Gene Kim and Steve Spear

Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear's "Wiring the Winning Organization" presents a new theory of organizational management based on extensive research. The book argues that excellence is achieved through mechanisms that slowify, simplify, and amplify problem-solving, moving it from high to low-risk zones. Through analysis of leading companies, it offers a practical guide for creating organizational excellence beyond traditional factors like vision or culture.

David Farley's "Modern Software Engineering" offers a foundational approach to improve software quality and developer well-being. It emphasizes learning, exploration, and managing complexity through principles that enhance code quality and work satisfaction. Farley advocates for a scientific method in software development, focusing on incremental progress, empirical learning, and effective complexity management.

The Lean Startup

- Eric Ries

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries advocates for a flexible, efficient approach to building startups under uncertainty, emphasizing rapid experimentation, customer feedback, and agile adaptation over traditional, rigid business plans. It draws from lean manufacturing to enhance creativity and capital efficiency, guiding entrepreneurs to discover viable business paths through continuous testing and learning.

The Startup Way

- Eric ries

Eric Ries expands on The Lean Startup principles in "The Startup Way," applying entrepreneurial techniques to all types of organizations for growth, innovation, and transformation. He shares insights from working with giants like GE, Amazon, and startups like Airbnb, presenting a management system for sustainable growth and impact across industries, making it a guide for modernizing organizations in the 21st century.

Inspired

- Marty Cagan

INSPIRED provides insights into product management at top tech firms like Amazon and Google. It focuses on building effective teams, finding market-fit products, and fostering innovation. This updated edition includes current practices from industry leaders, aiming to be a vital guide for technology product managers.

EMPOWERED by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones focuses on leveraging team potential for innovation, emphasizing leadership's role in creating an environment for greatness. It provides leaders in product management, design, and engineering with tools to build empowered teams, distinct from typical feature teams, and guides on transforming organizations to foster problem-solving and innovation.

User Story Mapping

- Jeff Patton

Jeff Patton's book on user story mapping offers a strategy for focusing software development teams on user needs over product features. It explains how story maps facilitate better discussions and a shared understanding of project goals. The guide covers the lifecycle of a story in Agile and Lean contexts, from opportunity to discovery and beyond, emphasizing continuous learning from the development process.

Good Services

- Lou Downe

Good Services introduces the essential principles of designing high-quality services, distinguishing between "good" and "bad" services based on user experience. It is a comprehensive guide for both practitioners and non-practitioners aiming to improve service delivery by focusing on the elements that ensure services meet user needs effectively.

Project to Product

- Mik Kersten

"Project to Product" by Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework to transition businesses from project-based models to product-centric approaches in the software-dominated era. Kersten argues that mastering software delivery is critical for companies to avoid becoming obsolete and to dominate in the 21st century. This book offers a strategic method for organizations to adapt and thrive amidst digital transformation, targeting leaders seeking to steer their companies towards innovation and sustained relevance.

Books from Prodacity Authors

Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama

- Janice & Jason Fraser

Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama offers theory alongside hands-on exercises, formulas, and frameworks that can all be adapted to real-life situations in both professional and personal contexts. The world around you might constantly be in flux, but you don’t have to be. With this book, you’ll be empowered to make efficient progress with less stress—every single day.

Corporate Rebels -
Make Work Fun

- Pim De Morree & Joost Minnaar

With 85% of employees disengaged, 23% feeling burned out and 37% believing that their job makes no useful contribution to society, work as we know it today is simply not working. Drawing on Minnaar and De Morree’s visits to 100+ of the world’s most progressive organisations, this book gives direct evidence that you can make work enjoyable and rewarding, while boosting performance and success.

The Value Flywheel Effect

- David Anderson

Using Wardley Mapping and other sense-making approaches, The Value Flywheel Effect helps organizations anticipate market changes and user needs. As the flywheel starts to turn, each small win builds momentum. This continuous momentum builds situational awareness, breaks new boundaries, and catapults companies to sustainable, long-term success.

Making Work Visible

- Dominca DeGrandis

Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.

Hack Your Bureaucracy

- Nick Sinai & Marina Nitze

From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers.

Lean Enterprise

- Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky,
Barry O'Reilly

This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale and demonstrates why and how to apply these paradigms throughout your organization. Through case studies, you'll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance.

Accelerate

- Jez Humble, Gene Kim,
Nicole Forsgren

Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations.

The DevOps Handbook

- Jez Humble, Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Wills, Nicole Forsgren

For years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the bestselling "The Phoenix Project" and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it's time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.

Supporting Coalition Partners

For information on Prodacity 2023 sponsorship opportunities, please reach out to Miranda Doyel at MDOYEL@RISE8.US