End Matter

Looking Forward

What next?

Start by starting.

Pick one nagging friction—meetings that sprawl, decisions that vanish into email, a team that never ships—and treat it like a design brief. Find one or more patterns that feel almost embarrassingly small for the job. rounds (48) gives every voice airtime in a few minutes. kanban (55) replaces a status spreadsheet no one reads with a board everyone can see. consent & consensus (10) keeps you from debating until the heat death of the universe. Win once, in one room, and earn the right to try the next pattern.

Wire the wins together.

When rounds meets structured decision-making (30), meetings get both equitable and conclusive. Add logbook (57) and you’ve baked a searchable memory into the workflow. A handful of patterns, well chosen and visibly linked, beat a 200-page transformation deck every time. They’re also portable. Any of your colleagues (perhaps one across boundaries on another team) can follow the same path that you followed, even if they don’t do it exactly the same way. Use the connection notes with each pattern as clues. They’re there for a reason: Every pattern in this book emerged because it solved a common misfit with another.