Software Delivery in Small Batches: Recent Episodes
Adam Hawkins
Adam Hawkins presents the theory and practices behind building a high velocity software organization. Topics include DevOps, lean, software architecture, continuous delivery, and interviews with industry leaders.
Adam presents thinking about boundaries, testing, and software design.
Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.
Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these:
- đĽ The Software Kaizen Substack
- đĽď¸ Alistair Cockburn's posts on Hexagonal Architecture
- đ New Book! Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge by John Willis
- âď¸ Small Batches #22: Derek Comartin on Service Boundaries
You can support Small Batches here.
Adam presents how he thinks about estimates and delivery. Plus, a special announcement on something new!
Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.
Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these:
- đĽ The Software Kaizen Substack
- đ Principles of Product Development Flow
- đ Making Work Visible
- âď¸ Small Batches #86 - Flow: A mental Model
You can support Small Batches here.
Adam presents mental model behind lean and agile. The mental model accepts we don't know the path forward, thus we must optimize for learning it.
Are you just beginning your path to excellence? Then start here.
Already on the path? Continue your self-study with any of these:
- đ§ The Small Batches Way study guide
- đ The Fifth Discipline
- đ The Learn Startup
- âď¸ Small Batches #39 - The High-Velocity Edge
You can support Small Batches here.
Learn More
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- Small Batches #80: Project Banana
- Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
- Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
- Leadership is Language
- Leadership is Language Summary
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
Socials
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Learn More
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
- Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
- Leadership is Language
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
Socials
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Learn More
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective (Come join Saeed and I)
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Saeed's post on the Business Vision, Product Vision, Product Objectives, Product Strategy, and Roadmap hierarchy
Socials
- Connect with Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Connect with Saeed Khan on LinkedIn
- Read Saeed's Blog (Recommended)
Learn More
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
- Small Batches #76: The Coaching Habit
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
Socials
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Learn More
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App
- Managing to Learn (2008)
- More on the A3 Process with Examples
- My Annotated A3 Template Miro Board
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Socials
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Learn More
- NEW! Get Small Batches Slack App
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
- The Coaching Habit (2016)
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Socials
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Recommend Reading
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming
- The High-Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear
- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
- The Toyota Way by Jeffery Liker
- The Toyota Kata by Mike Rother
- The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten
- Making Work Visible by Dominica de Grandis
- Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick de Bois, John Willis
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Stafford
- Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Recommended Listening
- Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
- Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- Small Batches #60: The Principles of Product Development Flow
- Small Batches #59: Making Work Visible
- Small Batches #63: Modern Software Engineering
- Small Batches #1: The Three Ways of DevOps
- Small Batches #16: The Story of Parts Unlimited
- Small Batches #18: Team Topologies
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Recommend Reading
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming
- The High-Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear
- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
- The Toyota Way by Jeffery Liker
- The Toyota Kata by Mike Rother
- The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten
- Making Work Visible by Dominica de Grandis
- Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick de Bois, John Willis
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Stafford
- Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Recommended Listening
- Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
- Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- Small Batches #60: The Principles of Product Development Flow
- Small Batches #59: Making Work Visible
- Small Batches #63: Modern Software Engineering
- Small Batches #1: The Three Ways of DevOps
- Small Batches #16: The Story of Parts Unlimited
- Small Batches #18: Team Topologies
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Small Batches #1: The DevOps Handbook
- Small Batches #70: Deployment Pipelines
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge - Part One
- Value Stream Mapping by Karen Martin and Mike Osterling
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Recommend Reading
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming
- The High-Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear
- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
- The Toyota Way by Jeffery Liker
- The Toyota Kata by Mike Rother
- The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten
- Making Work Visible by Dominica de Grandis
- Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick de Bois, John Willis
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Stafford
- Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Recommended Listening
- Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge (Part One)
- Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- Small Batches #60: The Principles of Product Development Flow
- Small Batches #59: Making Work Visible
- Small Batches #63: Modern Software Engineering
- Small Batches #1: The Three Ways of DevOps
- Small Batches #16: The Story of Parts Unlimited
- Small Batches #18: Team Topologies
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Small Batches #17: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley
- Small Batches #63: Modern Software Engineering
- Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery
Explore the tip of scientific thinking, lean, and kaizen with Dr. Deming's PDCA loop.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
- Small Batches #39: The High-Velocity Edge
- Lean Lexicon: PDCA
- Lean Lexicon: A3 Thinking
- Lean Lexicon: Kaizen
- Lean Lexicon: Toyota Production System
- Lean Lexicon: Jidoka
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Small Batches #22: Boundaries with Derek Comartin
- Small Batches #38: Dev Environments with Bryan Finster
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Profound Podcast
- Small Batches #49: Dr. Deming on Variation
- Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
How to use the 5S method plus the PFEP (Plan for Every Part) to reach the target condition of stable production operations.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
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- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book)
- The Fifth Discipline
- Small Batches #51: The System of Profound Knowledge with John Willis
This one comes from the episode jar. Canary deploys use deploy an experimental change prior to a larger change. If the canary change is successful, then proceed as normal. Otherwise, back off and readjust.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
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- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Release It!
A look into the ideas of empiricism, iteration, and incrementalism applied to software engineering. This is the topic of Dave Farley's 2022 book "Modern Software Engineering".
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Modern Software Engineering
- Small Batches #17: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley
- Small Batches #61: Extreme Programming Explained
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Continuous Delivery YouTube Channel
Art Smalley's 2019 book "The Four Types of Problems" presents troubleshooting, gap from standard, target condition, and open-end problems. Problem solving is key to any lean enterprise. Smalley's book helps practitioners identify and handle each appropriately.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
- The Four Types of Problems
Kent Beck's 1999 book "Extreme Programming" is a forerunner to modern software development engineering. This episode presents the second edition published in 2005. There are so many great ideas in here. I'm hard pressed to find anything that's irrelevant or that I disagree with.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
- Extreme Programming at Pivotal
This episode continues the theme of the past two episodes. Tl;DR: understand the price of work, optimize for flow through queues, use WIP constraints, reduce batch sizes, and prefer decentralization.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Principles of Product Development Flow
- Episode 59: Time Thieves
- Episode 58: Queuing Theory
This episodes connects Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinersten and Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis via the five time thieves.
The thieves are: too much WIP (work-in-progress), unknown dependencies, conflicting priorities, neglected work, and (the most annoying of the bunch) interrupts.
Free Resources
- NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Principles of Product Development Flow
- Making Work Visible
- Dominica DeGrandis on the Profound Podcast
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Adam presents applying the mathematics behind queueing theory to software delivery. Also an announcement!
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- Adam Hawkins' website
- Principles of Product Development Flow
- Making Work Visible
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Entries include:
- Software Delivery KPIs
- Lead Time
- Deployment Frequency
- MTTR (Mean-time-to-resolve)
- Change Failure Rate
- Jidoka
- Kaizen
- Type 3 Problems: target-condition
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The third of a three part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira.
Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group.
Adam and Steve come back to the fractal nature of flow, value streams, and where to start with improving flow.
Do you like this topic? Come join Steve and I in the Flow Collective.
Free Resources
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Steve Pereria on Twitter
- Steve Pereria on LinkedIn
- Steve Pereria's website
- The Flow Collective
- Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course
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The second of a three part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira.
Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group.
Steve goes deeper into flow engineering and the four maps: outcome, value streams, dependencies, and capabilities.
Do you like this topic? Come join Steve and I in the Flow Collective.
Free Resources
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Steve Pereria on Twitter
- Steve Pereria on LinkedIn
- Steve Pereria's website
- The Flow Collective
- Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course
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The first of a three part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira.
Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group.
Steve recounts his career and how he became so passionate about business value and how it flows across organization. Part one wraps with an introduction to the flow engineering.
Do you like this topic? Come join Steve and I in the Flow Collective.
Free Resources
- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- Steve Pereria on Twitter
- Steve Pereria on LinkedIn
- Steve Pereria's website
- The Flow Collective
- Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course
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Adam revists the ideas that created Toyota after learning from The High Velocity Edge and The New Economics.
Jeffery Liker's "The Toyota Way" presents 14 principles grouped into four categories: Philosophy, Process, People, and Problem Solving. Adam gives a short summary of each and how they relate to past material covered on the podcast.
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- The Flow Collective
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- Project to Product Email Course
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- The Toyota Way summary and analysis
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The third of a three part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis.
John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.
Adam and John dial in on one of the core tenants of the System of Profound knowledge: understanding variation. They discuss special and common cause variation and how to deal with each. Also, why is that most people have not heard of Deming when he's such an impact on lean theory.
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- The Flow Collective
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- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- John Willis on Twitter
- John Willis on LinkedIn
- Profound Podcast
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book)
- Out of the Crisis
- The DevOps Handbook
- 12 Days to Deming (Free course)
- Variation (Small Batches Episode #49)
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The second of a three part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis.
John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.
Adam and John focus on Deming's second book "The New Economics" which introduces the system of profound knowledge. This is why John's podcast is named "Profound". Nice reference.
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- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
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- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- John Willis on Twitter
- John Willis on LinkedIn
- Profound Podcast
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book)
- Out of the Crisis
- The DevOps Handbook
- 12 Days to Deming (Free course)
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The first of a three part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis.
John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.
Adam and John introduce Dr. Deming for the unfamiliar through his two books: "Out of the Crisis" and "New Economics". This leads into his discussion on lean theory and impact on the world through his influence in Japanese manufacturing.
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- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Links
- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- John Willis on Twitter
- John Willis on LinkedIn
- Profound Podcast
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book)
- Out of the Crisis
- The DevOps Handbook
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The first episode of a few episodes discussing Dr. Deming's works.
Adam recaps a principle of Dr. Deming's "System of Profound Knowledge": understanding variation. There are two types of variation: common and special causes. Misunderstanding the type of variation leads to wasted effort and lost resources. Understanding variation helps optimize system performance.
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- The Flow Collective
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
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- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' website
- The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book)
- Episode Transcript
- Profound Podcast
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This is the final episode in the series on the 2009 Book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
Adam and Steve reflect on the fundamental thesis in the book: apply the scientific method everywhere to everything all the time. This leads to a conversation on how the ideas directly apply to software, deployment pipelines, the ideal flow, and applying the coaching and improvement katas.
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- Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
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- Adam Hawkins on Twitter
- Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
- Adam Hawkins' webiste
- Steve Spear on Twitter
- Steve Spear on LinkedIn
- See To Solve (Steve's new venture)
- Steve on the Idealcast with Gene Kim
- Steve's previous DevOps Enterprise Summit Talks
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Part nine of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
My closing thoughts on the book before the next episode featuring my conversation with Steven Spear.
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- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
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- Website
- Episode Transcript
- The High Velocity Edge (book)
- Creating High Velocity Organizations (talk)
- Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection (talk)
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Part eight of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode demonstrates the third capability, knowledge sharing, and the fourth, developing skills in others, through Toyota's "jishuken" exercise. It's a process for improving problem solving processes.
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- Episode Transcript
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Part seven of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
The episode covers applying a disciplined problem solving method to achieve the second capability.
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- Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection (talk)
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Part six of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode completes the discussion on the first capability: system design and operation by identifying the four levels of system design and their associated checks.
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- The High Velocity Edge (book)
- The Story of Sakichi Toyoda
- Biography of Taiichi Ohno
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Part five of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode continues discussing system design and operations with a focus on using "jidoka" to build in quality control into systems.
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- The Story of Sakichi Toyoda
- Biography of Taiichi Ohno
- Small Batches #11: Preflight Checks
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Part four of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode introduces the two pillars of the first capability: design systems to reveal problems. The first pillar is Taiichi Ohno's "kanban", or pull-based, philosophy on system design. The second pillar is Sakichi Toyoda's "jidoka", or self-regulation, philosophy to identify problems when they happen.
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- The Story of Sakichi Toyoda
- Biography of Taiichi Ohno
- Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection (talk)
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Part three of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode tells the story of how Admiral Hyman Rickover demonstrated the four capabilities while creating the US Navy's nuclear reactor (or NR) program.
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- The High Velocity Edge (book)
- Dr. Steve Spear's 2019 and 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit Talks on Rapid, Distributed, Dynamic Learning (podcast)
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Part two of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode demonstrates the four capabilities through Alcoa's commitment to changing their safety culture.
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- The Topography of Problems and the Importance of Distributed Problem Solving (podcast)
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Part one of a nine part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.
This episode demonstrates how complex systems fail through the story of Mrs. Grant and the four capabilities to overcome such failures.
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- Episode Transcript
- The High Velocity Edge (book)
- Creating High Velocity Organizations (talk)
- Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection (talk)
- The Pursuit of Perfection: Dominant Architectures and Dynamics (podcast)
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Enjoy this meme ready episode with Bryan Finster.
Bryan Finster leads a DevOps dojo at a Fortune 50 enterprise where he helps teams deliver to production daily. This episode continues recurring discussion topics on the post: integrated vs isolated development environments, software architecture and team owner, and their relationship to delivering to production daily.
Checkout episodes #15 (for philosophy) and #22 (for boundaries) for more background on the ideas in this conversation.
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- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
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Bryan Finster's Links
- mountebank - over the wire test doubles
- Blog
- Prism: Turn OpenAPI spec into a running server
- Dredd: HTTP API Testing Framework
Adam Hawkins' Links
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- Small Batches #15: Dev Environments
- Small Batches #22: Service Boundaries
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Adam welcomes Dave Mangot to the show for a book discussion. The book is a classic leadership and management book: "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team". Adam & Dave discuss the dysfunctions through a lens of software delivery, DevOps, and SRE.
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Dave Mangot's Links
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- The Goal 30th Anniversary Edition
- Just Culture: Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
- The Three Principles Underpinning DevOps
- Inno-Versity Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet
- The Manager's Path (Book)
- People not Tech
- What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy - You're a DevOps Natural
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Level up your soft skills with this episode on "Agile Conversations". The episode begins with a short introduction to the book then dives into the content with the authors.
Topics include: "TDD for People", The four R's, The trust conversation, the fear conversation, the why conversation, the commitment conversation, and the accountability conversation.
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- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- Troubleshooting Agile Podcast
Jeffrey Fredrick's Links
- Website
- Agile Conversations Book
- London Organizational Learning Meetup
Douglas Squirrel's Links
- Website
- Free Conversational Dojo Kit
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Adam welcomes Carmen de Ardo to the show. Carmen is a senior VSM strategist at TaskTop and author of numerous books on value streams, leaderships, DevOps, and product transformation.
This episode is a response to a listener request for an episode on value streams. So we start from the beginning of "what is a value stream" and work up towards toward value stream mapping, the flow framework, and peak of continuous improvement.
Free Resources
- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- DOES15 - Carmen DeArdo - How DevOps is Enabling Lean Application Development
- The Case for Value Stream Architecture - Mik Kersten & Carmen DeArdo
- Project to Product: Practical Realities at a Large Scale Enterprise - Nationwide & Tasktop
- The Quest for Accelerated Delivery - Nationwide
- Value Stream Management: Treat Your Pipeline as Your Most Important Product
- Small Batches #21: The Flow Framework with Dr. Mik Kersten
- Small Batches #9: The Four Types of Work
Carmen DeArdo's Links
- Standing on Shoulders: A leaderâs guide to digital transformation
- Standing on Shoulders Podcast Edition
- The Age of Value Stream Management
- Moving to Project to Product
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Adam welcomes Matthew Skelton to the show. Matthew is co-author of the book "Team Topologies" and a DevOps Enterprise Summit speaker. This episode builds on the previous podcast introducing the team types and interaction models.
Adam and Matthew discuss the first principles in Team Topologies, building internal platform products, and the impact on software and team architecture.
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Adam Hawkins' Links
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- Team Topologies in Small Batches #18
- Team Topologies talks at the DevOps Enterprise Summit
Matthew Skelton's Links
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business & Technology for Fast Flow (book)
- Key Concepts
- Mini-book: Organization Dynamics with Team Topologies (in collaboration with TechBeacon)
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Adam welcomes Markus Schirp to the show. Markus is an independent software professional. He calls himself a "dynamic language exorcist." He's also the man behind the Mutant mutation project for Ruby.
Adam and Markus discuss the first principles for software development and ladder up to higher level abstractions and how tooling helps developers.
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- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
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- My Github
- Mutant
- My Talks
Adam Hawkins' Links
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- Software Architecture Talk (2014)
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Adam welcomes Sebastian Dahlgren to the show. Sebastian is now the CTO at Saltside. Sebastian joined Saltside just after the rewrite completed and continues to work there today.
Adam & Sebastian worked closely together to grow the team in Bangalore until Adam left Saltside in 2017. Adam & Sebastian discuss if the rewrite delivered on its promise, what worked, what didn't work, and if those architectural bets made years ago paid off.
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Sebastian Dahlgren's Links
- Saltside Engineering Blog
Adam Hawkins' Links
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- Saltside Engineering: Building our Helm Chart
- Saltside Engineering: Our First Kubernetes Outage
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Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.
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- Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)
Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.
Free Resources
- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)
Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.
Free Resources
- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)
Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.
Free Resources
- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)
Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021.
Free Resources
- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite)
Adam welcomes Alex Hidalgo to the show. Alex is the Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives.
Adam & Alex discuss the ins-and-outs of SLOs. It's assumed you are already familiar with the basic concepts of SLIs & SLOs so please listen to the previous episode (linked below) before listening to this conversation.
Some of the take-aways: run your SLOs for a least a month before you consider them ready and alerting on SLOs is a really hard problem! Lots of great pro-tips in this episode.
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- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- SLI's, SLO's, & SLA's on Small Batches #14
- Implementing SLOs from the SRE Workbook
Alex Hidalgo's Links
- Implementing Service Level Objectives (Book)
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Adam welcomes Keith Pitt to the show. Keith Pitt is the founder as CTO of Buildkite.com. Buildkite is CI/CD platform.
Adam invited Keith on the show to discuss software delivery inside a company building software delivery tools. It turns out that Buildkite has a fearless continuous deployment pipeline. So listeners, if you need a software delivery North Star then just listen to Keith. It's all here in this episode.
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- Project to Product Email Course
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- Buildkite
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- Continuous Deployment to K8s using Buildkite
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Adam welcomes Viktor Farcic to the show. Viktor Farcic is a Principal DevOps Architect at CodeFresh, a member of the Google Developer Experts, Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassadors, and Docker Captains groups, and a published author.
Adam & Viktor discuss the how and why of GitOps and how ArgoCD fits in the deployment pipeline. Many fun sidebars in this conversation into the role of docs vs code and why you should never compromise on your workflow when quality is at stake. This is a fun and easy conversation. Best served with a beer instead of the usual coffee. Enjoy the laughs.
Free Resources
- New! One Month Software Delivery Dojo
- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Viktor Farcic's Links
- Website
- The DevOps Toolkit Book Series
- The DevOps Toolkit Video Series
- DevOps Paradox Podcast
- ArgoCD
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Website
- My appearance on The DevOps Paradox: A Day in the Life of a SRE
- Next Gen Deployments @ Skillshare (Webinar)
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Adam welcomes Torin Sandall to the show. Torin is the Vice President of Open Source at Styra and the co-creator of Open Policy agent.
Adam & Torin discuss the origin of the project, why create new language from scratch called Rego, why that language is awesome, how Adam fell in love with Conftest, and how to use all these tools to create more secure systems.
The first five or so minutes are for Small Batches housekeeping and a special announcement!
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- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
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Adam Hawkins' Links
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- Conftest (You really should try this!)
- My Kubernetes Manifest Rego Policies
Torin Sandall's Links
- Open Policy Agent
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Adam welcomes Derek Comartin to the show. Derek is a Microsoft Most-Valuable-Professional and distributed systems architect. He also co-hosts the Loosely Coupled podcast.
Derek discusses the ideas behind his talk the "Loosely Coupled Monolith" and "Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries". Great high level conversation on how software design principles inside applications scale out to distributed systems as a whole.
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- DevOps Email Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- Continuous Improvement Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
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- Context is King talk
- Context is King blog post
- The Loosely Coupled Monolith
Derek Comartin's Links
- Website
- My Youtube Channel
- The Loosely Coupled Show
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Adam welcomes Dr. Mik Kersten to the show. Dr. Mik Kersten is the author of the best selling book "Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework". This is a follow up to the earlier "Four Types of Work" episode.
Adam & Mik cover the Flow Framework's origin story, the relation between The Flow Framework and DevOps, the importance of structure & dynamics, and why organizing for fast flow is the prime directive.
Freebies
- Free DevOps Course
- Project to Product Email Course
- The Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
- War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Small Batches #9: The Four Types of Work
- The Flow Framework
Mik Kersten's Links
- Mik Plus One Podcast
- Project to Product Book
- How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business (Presented at DOES18)
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Adam welcomes Joe Kutner to the show. Joe is a Software Architect at Salesforce Heroku. He's been writing and speaking about the 12 factor app for years and continually evaluating the practices at Salesforce Heroku.
Adam & Joe discuss the misconceptions of the 12 factor app and the gaps between the 12 factor app and continuous delivery requirements. This is really a follow up discussion to the earlier episodes on the 12.1 Factor app.
Joe Kutner's Links
- Cloud Native Build Packs
Adam Hawkins' Links
- Small Batches #5: The 12 Factor App
- The 12.1 Factor App: Config
- The 12.1 Factor App: Logs
- The 12.1 Factor App: Dev-Prod Parity
- Free DevOps Course
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- Jason's testing course
- Jason's website
- Jason on twitter
- Jason's podcast: Rails with Jason
- My review of Accelerate
- The DORA Report
Today Iâm covering the 2019 book "Team Topologies: Organizing Business & Technology Teams for Fast Flow" written by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais.
Let me read off their official bio:
Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais - co-authors of the book Team Topologies - have worked together on organisation design for modern software systems with many clients around the world. Their training sessions on Organisation Design for Modern Software Systems have helped numerous organizations to re-think their approach to team intercommunication and software architecture, improving flow and the effectiveness of software delivery.
So Iâm stoked to finally discuss Team Topologies on Small Batches. This book has come up so many times in my work as an SRE at Skillshare and tangentially related to everything Iâve discussed on Small Batches to date. This is because team architecture and software architecture are directly related to software delivery performance.
Thatâs particularly why I enjoyed Team Topologies so much because itâs truly a book about high velocity software delivery. In fact itâs right there smack in the title. Plus it provides a language to discuss this facet of software delivery.
Youâve likely encountered some of these concepts before, so this time around it may just be a new language.
Iâll share a personal anecdote from earlier in my career to set the stage for this episode.
Roughly fives years ago I lead the platform team through a complete ground up rewrite at a previous company. We were divided into technology teams: The web, mobile, and platform team. Given these boundaries each of respective team lead set out to create their internal architecture. Nothing to see here: just Conwayâs law in action. It worked well here because we had isomorphic technology and team architecture.
Then something happened out of the blue shortly after the rewrite completed.
The organization went through a total re-org that changed the team structure, their responsibilities and how they interacted without doing anything to address the underlying technical architecture. This created confusing boundaries, ownership responsibilities, and left so called "independent feature teams" at the mercy of the small number of capable backend engineers capable of working across the various internal services.
These problems could have been avoided with some foresight and planning. Plus itâs especially bothersome because the entire engineering team had just finished a ground up rewrite that architected a system to support an entirely different team topology! If there was ever a time for a reverse Conway maneuver that was not it.
This example speaks to the importance of Conwayâs law and how team and software architecture fit together to create fast flow or on the other hand just inhibit it.
Team Topologies provides a framework that avoids this problem from the outset by optimizing for fast flow.
Links
- @Manuelpaisable
- @MatthewPSkelton
- Buy Team Topologies
- Monoliths vs Microservices is Missing the PointâStart with Team Cognitive Load @ DOES Europe 2019
- Team Topologies Posters
- Team Topologies on Mik Plus One
- Team Topologies at Parts Unlimited w/Manuel Pais
- The Idealcast # 5: The Pursuit of Perfection: Dominant Architectures, Structure, and Dynamics: A Conversation With Dr. Steve Spear
This is a special episode of Small Batches. I interview Dave Farley in this episode.
Dave, along with Jez Humble, is the co-author of "Continuous Delivery" published in 2010. The book introduced the ideas that grew into DevOps. So, no surprise that DevOps and continuous delivery are the same most people.
Together Dave and Jez introduced continuous delivery to the world. The practices and ideas still hold true ten years on.
Time and research have demonstrated that continuous delivery is the most effective way to develop software. If youâve read Accelerate then you know what Iâm talking about. Thatâs partially why am so passionate about it and that doesnât even account for the fun I have working in that environment.
Dave and I talked about different aspects of continuous delivery beginning with the difference between software development and software engineering. Or as Dave putâs it: scientific rationalism.
We also speak about the connection from delivery, feedback, and experimentation. Or, as he putâs it: "just doing engineering".
He also shared why he doesnât like the term DevOps. I gotta say I tend agree with him after hearing his reasoning.
Lastly I get his view on the Preflight Checks I mentioned in an early episode of this podcast. Go to smallbatches.fm/11 for that episode.
Now I give you my conversation with Dave Farley.
You can find Dave at:
- The Continuous Delivery book
- His YouTube channel
- His blog
- His consulting services
- On Twitter
Start Here
- SLOs defined from the Google Site Reliability Engineering Book
- Implementing SLOs from the Google Site Reliability Engineering Workbook
- The Art of SLOs workshop by Google
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
Resources
- Transcript
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
Resources
- Transcript
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Preflight Checks
- My Interview on Rails with Jason on Preflight Checks & Smoke Tests
- Episode on the config factor related to the "dry run" preflight check
- Transcript
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
Resources
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The Flow Framework & Four Types of Work
- My free Project to Product email course covers expanding flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
- The Flow Framework
- The Flow Framework Poster
- Project to Product (book)
- Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business presentation by Mik Kersten
- Mik Kersten's podcast
- Transcript
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
Resources
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The 12.1 factor approach prefers locality over fully integrated environments. Doing so promotes fast and independent iterations on discrete services using automated tests to verify correctness. End-to-End issues that may have been identified with a fully integrated environment with dev/prod parity should be pushed downstream in the deployment pipeline in accordance with test pyramid principles. If a regression is identified, then it may quickly addressed by adding tests to the relevant serviceâs test suite.
Topics Mentioned in the Show
- The 5 Ideals
- The Unicorn Project
- Practical Test Pyramid
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Team Topologies
- My Talk at WrocLove.rb 2014 on Software Architecture, Object, Roles, and Boundaries
- Bounded Contexts & Domain Driven Design
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
Resources
- Transcript
- The 12 Factor App
- Jay Kutner on the 12 Factor App via SE Radio
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The 12 factor app states that applications should log to standard out and standard error, thus not concerting themselves with the storage and processing of their log stream. That's a good start point, but we need more than that. The 12.1 factor app does these three things:
- Supports a LOG_LEVEL configuration option
- Uses a machine readable format, such as JSON, in production
- Treats log streams as a telemetry source
Mentioned in Show
- The 12 Factor App
- The 12.1 Factor App: Config
- Rails with Jason
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
Resources
- Transcript
- The 12 Factor App
- Jay Kutner on the 12 Factor App via SE Radio
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The 12 factor app states that applications should read config from environment variables. It implies separation of code and config. Thatâs about it, but thereâs good bones here. I want something bigger from this factor. Specifically that applications may be deployed to new environments without any code changes. This requires a few additions:
- Configure the process through command options and environment variables
- Prefer explicit configuration over implicit configuration
- Use a dry run option to verify config sanity
- Fail fast on any configuration error
Mentioned in Show
- Where, What, and How to Test on the Ruby Testing Podcast
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
Resources
- Transcript
- The 12 Factor App
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that:
- Use declarative formats for setup automation, to minimize time and cost for new developers joining the project;
- Have a clean contract with the underlying operating system, offering maximum portability between execution environments;
- Are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need for servers and systems administration;
- Minimize divergence between development and production, enabling continuous deployment for maximum agility;
- And can scale up without significant changes to tooling, architecture, or development practices.
The twelve-factor methodology can be applied to apps written in any programming language, and which use any combination of backing services (database, queue, memory cache, etc).
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
Resources
- Transcript
- The 12 Factor App
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
This episode completes our introduction to the three ways of DevOps. The previous two episodes introduced flow and feedback. Flow, the first way, establishes fast left to right flow from development to production. Feedback, the second way of DevOps, establishes right to left feedback from production to development, so using the state of production informs development decisions. The Third Way of DevOps, establishes a culture of experimentation and learning around improving flow and feedback.
Be sure to check out the Toyota Kata for more continuous improvement.
Freebies
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
Resources
- Transcript
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The DevOps Handbook & Accelerate are the source material for this episode.
The Principle of Feedback, or the second way of DevOps, describes using right to left feedback in the value stream. This episode explores how telemetry is more than error data or alerts. When used right (i.e. paired with experimentation), telemetry provides an objective way to move towards shared goals.
Freebies
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
Resources
- Transcript
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The DevOps Handbook & Accelerate are the source material for this episode.
The principle of flow, or the first way of DevOps, calls for building fast feedback from development to production. In practice this mean implementing continuous delivery.
Freebies
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
Resources
- Transcript
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
- Software Development in 3 Principles & 4 Metrics
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The DevOps Handbook & Accelerate are the source material for this episode.
The DevOps Handbook is the best introduction to DevOps available. It puts the value stream at the center of an IT company, thus itâs in the companyâs best interest to optimize the value stream. The DevOps Handbook presents the âThree Waysâ: flow, feedback, and learning.
Accelerate picks up where the DevOps Handbook left off. The three ways cover theory and relevant technical practices, but does not precisely define success criteria. Accelerate defines four metrics for measuring IT performance: lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate. Research done by the authors also presents low, medium, and high performance targets for each metric.
Combining theory and practices from The DevOps Handbook and metrics from Accelerate provide a solid philosophy for software development and measuring performance. Thatâs âDevOpsâ in a nutshell.
Freebies
- Free DevOps Course much more detailed than what we can cover in the podcast
- Products over Projects expand flow, feedback, and learning to the entire organization
- Mastering the Third Way of DevOps use the Toyota Kata for continuous improvement
Resources
- Transcript
- My Review & Analysis on The DevOps Handbook
- My Review & Analysis on Accelerate
Books
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim