delivery.training

See where your delivery time actually goes

Interactive training on the why behind modern software delivery — flow, feedback, engineering practice, and the economics underneath. You don't read it; you feel it. Built for engineers, delivery leads, and senior leaders.

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Small batches deliver value early — and keep delivering.
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12 modules · 6 themes

The curriculum

Each module is a self-contained, interactive lesson that builds one idea you can feel. They connect into a single argument about how delivery really works.

Flow & economics
1.
It's a System — Batch Size Is the Lever
Ship in small batches and value lands sooner — feel it on a live assembly line.
2.
Why Busyness Isn't Speed
How a team that's 100% busy becomes the slowest — watch the queue explode.
3.
Slicing Work Small
Turn big features into thin vertical slices that each deliver something real.
4.
Why Queues Explode — Limit WIP
Little's Law made tangible: cap work in progress and finish faster.
Feedback & learning
5.
Fast Feedback & Empirical Control
Software is discovery, not production — find out you're wrong while it's cheap.
Risk, planning & decisions
6.
The Plan That's Late by Design
Why a detailed up-front plan is structurally built to slip.
7.
It's Economics, Not Religion
Prioritise by cost of delay — see the money a gut-feel order leaves behind.
Engineering practices
8.
Continuous Integration & Trunk-Based Development
Why the safe-feeling branch is what makes the eventual merge so painful.
9.
Testing & Built-In Quality
You can't inspect quality in — and why automated tests make you faster.
10.
Technical Debt, Simple Design & Refactoring
Messy code charges compounding interest. Manage it like a balance sheet.
DevOps & operations
11.
You Build It, You Run It
The fastest teams are also the most stable — the DORA evidence, felt.
Systems & org design
12.
Systems Thinking & Organisational Design
Structure beats effort — find the one bottleneck that sets the pace.
Not opinion — evidence

Grounded in the research, not folklore

Every claim traces to established work — queuing theory and Little's Law on flow, Deming on built-in quality, the DORA research programme on what actually makes teams fast and stable, and the economics of cost of delay. Where the figures are debated, the modules say so and show the honest range rather than overclaiming. The aim is to change how you think, with reasons you can check.

Casey Acworth
Who built this

Casey Acworth

Head of Delivery, DeepWeaver.ai · Sydney, Australia

Casey has worked inside software delivery since 2010, mostly on systems where late meant expensive: the migration of Qantas.com to AWS and a $250 million aircraft-maintenance platform that ran at 99.998% availability for its first three years; then a decade at SITA designing and delivering border-security systems across Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the last six of them as Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Today he heads delivery at DeepWeaver.ai, running cross-functional teams that ship agentic AI systems into production for clients including ARB and the NSW Government. This course is the material he wishes every team he has coached had started with.

  • Head of Delivery, DeepWeaver.ai (Anthropic Claude Partner Network)
  • Six years Scrum Master & Agile Coach at SITA · A-CSM
  • Consulting Solution Architect at Qantas (TCS), 2010–2016
  • BEng Computer Software Engineering, Griffith University
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delivery.training · built by Casey Acworth, Sydney, Australia