THE READING ROOM · UPDATED 2026

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Richard Durnall’s original articles and references, with current reading notes and practical next steps. New field guides sit alongside the original writing.

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Practical field guides

FIELD NOTE 01 / FLOW

Set a WIP limit your team can actually use

A practical experiment for controlling work in progress: define boundaries, handle blocked work and review flow without turning the limit into a target.

Read the guide ↗FIELD NOTE 02 / PROBLEM SOLVING

An A3 for a problem that keeps returning

Write a concise A3 for digital work: establish the gap, separate observations from hypotheses and design a checkable countermeasure.

Read the guide ↗FIELD NOTE 03 / STRATEGY

Connect a strategic goal to a testable change

A working strategy-to-experiment map: connect outcomes, observations, owners and review decisions without building a cascade of disconnected targets.

Read the guide ↗FIELD NOTE 04 / AGILE

Make Agile adoption a learning experiment

A practical adoption plan for one team: choose a real delivery problem, create feedback and review consequences before expanding a practice.

Read the guide ↗FIELD NOTE 05 / SYSTEMS THINKING

Map one piece of work before mapping everything

Follow one completed request through a digital service, distinguish work from waiting and choose an observation-led improvement experiment.

Read the guide ↗FIELD NOTE 06 / CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Leave the retrospective with one test

A focused retrospective format that turns a specific observation into a reversible test, an owner and a review decision.

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Ideas you canput to work.

5S for IT Strategy

A3 Reports

About Me

Agile Adoption Patterns

Agile Alliance Australia – Meetings

Agile Australia 2009

Agile Glossary

Agile Glossary

Agile Readiness Assessments

Agile XP

Australian Architecture Forum 2008

Dzone Lean Article

Frog & Bike Thinkers

From Push to Pull

Google 2007 Financial Results

Hoshin Kanri

Interview: Lean Software Development with Kent Beck

Interview: Lean Software Development with Mary Poppendieck

Interview: Lean Thinking with Owen Berkeley-Hill

Interview: SEO with Rand Fishkin

Japanese Management Theory

Kanban

Lean 2008

Lean From The Top…

Lean Glossary

Lean IT Glossary

Lean IT Presentation

Lean Software Development (LSD)

Lean Software Development Video

Lean vs Agile

Learning to Learn

Media

New Book :: Toyota Culture

Objects of Desire: Fano RB6

Offshore Agile

Organisational Design

Presentation: Restructuring IT (Ross Pettit)

Presentations

Pull Systems

Push Systems

Reading List

Reading List

Reflections on Agile 2008

Reflections on Lean 2008

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Size Matters

Systems Management Theory

The IT Division. Refactored.

Top 200 Blogs for Developers

Waste / Muda

Welcome to ‘The Lean Tool Age’

What is Lean?