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Today, we celebrate the release of The IT/OT Handbook by David Ariens and Willem van Lammeren! Pick up your copy today! Amazon: itrev.io/4xB1R1A Barnes & Noble: itrev.io/46PAdSU Bookshop․org: itrev.io/47xgVT7

If you've started reading Signals & Levers, or are wondering if it's the right book for you, you might enjoy the Facilitator's Guide. It goes chapter by chapter, giving extra resources, discussion questions, and homework. It's great for a book club, or your own learning! itrev.io/3V6fAPO

If AI writes code faster, why isn’t software delivery faster? A new paper in IT Revolution’s Fall 2026 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal has a blunt answer: the real bottleneck is the system’s ability to safely absorb speed. itrev.io/48bYoeV

Mik Kersten appeared at the SAFe & AI Summit, and you can watch his keynote here: itrev.io/3VYDcGB

Subscribers to The Globe and Mail will want to make sure they read this article about Collective Confidence: itrev.io/4sdiT4c

Did you make the launch for The IT/OT Handbook? You can watch the full video and relive the magic or find out what you missed! itrev.io/4hObiEx

Confidence given away doesn’t diminish. It multiplies. How the USS Honolulu’s leaders built belief in every sailor: naming strengths, specific recognition, and engineered small wins. Read more: itrev.io/4evnCIK

A year ago, we released Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge. So much has changed in that year! We want to hear from you: ▪️ What vibe coding adventures have you had? ▪️ What "aha" moments have hit you? ▪️ Have you made a favorite tool? ▪️ What are you still struggling to overcome?

Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi celebrated the launch of their book Signals & Levers with the one and only Gene Kim! Check out this fascinating discussion about systems thinking, the world of The Phoenix Project, and more! itrev.io/4z0gRad #SystemsThinking

Mid-inspection, a sub crew lost a weapons system. They rallied anyway, and the evaluator said he had never seen a crew perform better. Not luck. Two years of building belief in every sailor, one at a time. From André Martin’s Collective Confidence: itrev.io/4evnCIK

"When an organization lives at one speed but is governed at another, value leaks at one end while risk compounds at the other." Tech can be rewired in weeks. Decision rights and accountability change over years. Why that gap matters for AI: itrev.io/4hB48Vg

How do you build a team that can handle anything? In this Fast Company Book Bite, André Martin shares 5 lessons from Collective Confidence, from submarine crews to the Cajun Navy. Our favorite: make everyone the boss of something. itrev.io/3TSARfw

Practice Makes Culture co-author Ronica Roth spoke at Princeton Agility about how organizations build cultures where business results and people both thrive, one practiced behavior at a time. Watch the full talk: itrev.io/4yK31ss

AI makes output cheap. In a Leaders Perception interview, Output to Outcome author Mik Kersten explains how leaders can turn that output into business value by building operating models around outcomes that are defined, owned, and measured. itrev.io/4yFZifC

Here's what the experts are saying about The IT/OT Handbook: “This book is a wonderful and overdue handbook for all Industry 4.0 practitioners who have been trying to access the value that we all know remains to be unlocked.” —Zev Arnold, Principal Director, Accenture

Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi joined Shane Hastie on the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast to talk Signals & Levers: how AI-boosted code output exposes new bottlenecks, how leaders shape culture, and what makes an engineering org thrive. itrev.io/4ATE9jq

A 2025 MIT study of 300 enterprise AI deployments found 95% delivered no measurable P&L impact. Same models, same vendors. A new paper in the Fall 2026 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal argues that the differentiator is the organization the tech lands in. itrev.io/4hB48Vg

The best AI practices in most organizations stay buried in personal docs and chat threads. In MarTech, Hyperadaptive author Melissa Reeve shares how to capture those discoveries and turn them into a flywheel that spreads learning across teams. itrev.io/4zl2iOj

Barry Stahl put Signals & Levers by Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi to work on a tricky architecture problem: intermittent data errors in a bus maintenance system. His case study maps the feedback loops and levers behind the bugs. itrev.io/4dvdAak

What separates extraordinary teams from ordinary ones? André Martin says it’s collective confidence. He joined Claire Harbour and Antoine Tirard on Disrupt Your Career Author Chat to talk about his new book, Collective Confidence. itrev.io/4zeyEKo

If you couldn't make Tuesday's launch webinar for The IT/OT Handbook, never fear! The authors recorded it, and you can catch every minute in this video. itrev.io/4hObiEx

"Either we find a scalable way to manage AI, or it will manage us." —Output to Outcome by Mik Kersten Amazon: itrev.io/4oQ0eZf Barnes & Noble: itrev.io/4rEPhwg Bookshop․org: itrev.io/4j0vUvE

Sign up for a workshop with Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi, the authors of Signals & Levers! Agile Testing Days Nov. 16 - 19, 2026 Potsdam, Germany More info: itrev.io/4bL0rcf Register: itrev.io/3Uru9wW

In today's article, we look at the seven cooperation patterns outlined in David Ariens and Willem van Lammeren's new book, The IT/OT Handbook. Read more: itrev.io/4z90zLO

This list from The Next Big Idea Club will get you set for fall reading, and you might recognize a familiar title (Collective Confidence, by André Martin). itrev.io/4ynBRYd

Curious what changed between Mik Kersten's first book, Project to Product (2018), and his new book, Output to Outcome? Find the answer to this and more questions in the Q&A he did with CEOWORLD Magazine. itrev.io/4rMGloW

The Fall 2026 edition of our Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal contains seven papers on some of today's most pressing issues. Download for free today! itrev.io/4xXpz80 Sponsored by GitLab.

The shortlist for SABEW’s 2026 Best in Business Book Awards was announced last week, and we were delighted to see Output to Outcome among such great titles! Congratulate all the authors if you see them, and keep your eyes out for the winners to be announced later this fall. itrev.io/4ALfgXa

We hope to see you at the virtual launch for The IT/OT Handbook on October 6! itrev.io/4hnRybW

If you've been wondering what The IT/OT Handbook is all about...well, good news! David Ariens and Willem van Lammeren made a video all about it. itrev.io/47z12Lr

Listen to a sample of the Output to Outcome audiobook on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/NXQc9pF

What the experts are saying about Hyperadaptive: “I appreciate how [the book] balances ambition with operational discipline, grounded in real case studies, clear stages, and a very human view of the change curve our people are being asked to walk.” —Ed Keisling, SVP, Chief AI Officer, Progress

Review time up 441%, incidents per pull request up 243%: one bank's AI-accelerated code pipeline just moved its bottleneck downstream. "AI-Driven Organizational Value" argues freed-up capacity isn't captured value, and most orgs are measuring the wrong half. buff.ly/KVaM3Pg

Three themes (Understand, Cooperate, and Scale) represent the three parts of The IT/OT Handbook, and authors David Ariens and Willem van Lammeren will talk with guests representing each at their launch event on Oct 6, 2026. Oct 6, 2026 | 4PM CET Sign up today: buff.ly/n3rA7Um