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Hepta
Management System

From Lean-Agile to Lean-AI.

Since 2024, AI has been transforming software development. Quietly, but more deeply than most are willing to admit. This book rethinks IT management for exactly this turning point.

Available on Amazon (Kindle Unlimited) and in book stores worldwide.
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The model

The seven senses of an IT organization

HeptaMS sorts the jungle of methods along seven senses with which an organization perceives and steers its environment. Not another framework - the layer above.

01
Direction
OKRs

Strategy and focus instead of activity.

02
Leadership
Management 3.0

Self-organization with accountability.

03
Flow
Lean

Value stream instead of utilization.

04
Cadence
Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

A rhythm that fits the work.

05
Stability
ITIL

Reliable operations without bureaucracy.

06
Collaboration
DevOps

From idea to production.

07
Reach
Sourcing

Extending your delivery capability.

Why AI forces organisations to get lean

Artificial intelligence lowers the cost of doing, not the cost of deciding. The bottleneck does not disappear, it moves: into approval, review and alignment. That is a flow problem, not a tooling problem, and flow is exactly what Lean has worked on for seventy years.

Then comes the second shift. Anyone who lets an agent loose on a real system is developing software, even if the org chart says “accounting”. That department inherits every problem software teams had to solve over twenty years, and none of the answers.

Work Waiting
Without AI Lead time 100 %
With AI Lead time 89 %
Lead time of one item, split into work and waiting. The work shrinks to a quarter. The lead time barely moves.
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45 chapters in six parts. Available as paperback or e-book - at Amazon (incl. Kindle Unlimited), Apple Books, Google Play and in book stores worldwide.

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E-book: 29 €
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Office hours, wiki, forum, materials and certification courses. The HeptaMS Community is where practitioners help practitioners - and where you find what doesn't fit in a book.

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René Hoyer
About the author

René Hoyer

René Hoyer has been writing software since he was twelve. For over two decades he has accompanied organizations through agile transformation: as program manager, product owner and SAFe coach (SPC). He has introduced Scrum, Kanban and OKRs in large companies. He has worked with artificial intelligence since the early nineties, today daily with coding agents. He is the founder of HeptaMS and OCENOX and lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.