The Working Library

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No. 01

Apr 29, 2026

7 min read

Team Performance

A practical model for building elite engineering teams.

Most engineering organizations have a small number of teams that are widely regarded as elite. They deliver faster without cutting corners. They recover quickly when things go wrong. They earn trust from the business. But those teams are rarely reproducible.

Dr. Rik Farenhorst

CEO, DASA

RF

No. 02

Apr 22, 2026

3 min read

Transformation

Why reorganizations fail to deliver the performance they promised.

The logic behind a large-scale reorganization is rarely the problem. Reduce structural overhead. Align teams to value streams. Clarify accountability. Create the conditions for better delivery. The logic is usually right. The follow-through is where things break down.

Dr. Rik Farenhorst

CEO, DASA

RF

No. 03

Apr 8, 2026

4 min read

Transformation

What instrumented transformations look like in practice.

The instinct during an organizational transformation is to measure what you already know how to measure. The problem is that those signals were not designed to be read together, and during a reorg, it is the relationship between them that matters.

Dr. Rik Farenhorst

CEO, DASA

RF

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