You reached the end of ALIGN
Daan is invented. Arvo is invented. The eleven charges over a weekend are not, or near enough, and neither is the method he spends two years installing.
I wrote the book without naming any software, because a method that only works inside one product is not a method. But people finish it and ask the same question, so here is the answer plainly: the engine Daan builds exists. I built it. It is called Taskstreamer, and this is its website.
You do not have to do anything with that. The book stands on its own and the ideas in it are yours to use however you like. If you are curious, everything below is here.
Maarten Rooseboom Soest, the Netherlands
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Some of this ships today and some of it does not. You have just read two hundred pages of me arguing that people should say which is which, so here it is.
The wall, the value model, the tournament. OKR or OGSM, linked to the work, with what-ifs that recalculate against real constraints instead of ending in an argument.
The roadmap that stops lying. Priority, dependencies and capacity go in, the sequence comes out, and it redraws itself every time reality moves. Runs inside Jira, with a 14-day trial.
Receipts. Work handed to a machine properly rather than as a paragraph, and something real standing between an unattended agent and a customer's bank account.
A thank you for finishing it.
ALIGN is a business novel about the distance between deciding something and it actually happening, and what changes when the doing stops passing through people. Two years, one consultant, eleven teams, and one weekend that goes wrong.