The Continuous Delivery Podcast: Recent Episodes

Zarar Siddiqi

A podcast about continuously delivering valuable software to production.

Is the Agile Manifesto obsolete in the age of AI? Is a complete rethinking of software development required? From agile overhead to evolving roles and responsibilities of development teams, we'll unpack it all.

0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Agile Methodologies and AI
6:00 - Overhead and Productivity
10:30 - Agile Manifesto
15:00 - Testing and Documentation
18:00 - Team Structures and Collaboration
22:00 - Product Management and Customer Interaction
30:00 - Impediments to Adoption
37:00 - Insights and Takeaways
42:00 - Conclusion and Decision

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NEW POD! Zarar and Csaba discuss examine the findings of the 2024 DevOps Research and Assessment Report (DORA) and the impact of AI on continuous delivery

00:00 - Intro

02:15 - The Big Question: Does AI Speed Up Production Deployments?

04:30 - The DORA Report Shocker: AI's Surprising Impact

07:45 - Where AI Actually Shines: Documentation Over Deployment

11:20 - The Dangerous Trap of AI-Generated Tests

15:10 - Smart AI Usage: Boilerplate vs. Business Logic

18:00 - Junior Developers in Crisis: The Experience Gap Widens

22:30 - The Abstraction Debate: Are We Losing Essential Skills?

26:45 - The Death of Refactoring Tools

29:15 - Product Performance Paradox: More Tools, Same Results

32:00 - The Hockey Stick Prediction: DORA's Optimistic Future

34:30 - The Big Question: AI Addiction and Pricing Reality

36:45 - The Open Source Response: Will History Repeat?

39:20 - Local AI Revolution: Running ChatGPT on Your Laptop

42:10 - The Toilsome Work Mystery: Why AI Isn't Solving Burnout

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Kanban guru, Fernando Cuenca joins the podcast alongside Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Csaba Bereczki to discuss Kanban. Hosted by Zarar Siddiqi.

00:00 🚦 Introducing Kanban: Why Your Scrum Teams Are Stuck

Learn why traditional sprint methodologies might be holding your team back and how Kanban can unlock better workflow

04:32 🔍 The Kanban Lens: Understanding Your Current Process

Discover how Kanban isn't about switching processes, but about gaining insights into your existing workflow and identifying improvement opportunities

11:45 🤝 Tackling Organizational Dependencies Like a Pro

Master strategies for managing complex dependencies in large organizations and keep your team's productivity flowing

18:20 💡 Work Item Types: Not All Tasks Are Created Equal

Unlock the secret to creating more meaningful work categories that actually make sense to your customers

24:15 📋 Crafting Powerful Team Policies for Maximum Autonomy

Learn how clearly defined policies can surprisingly give your team MORE freedom, not less

30:40 🧩 WIP Limits: The Game-Changing Productivity Hack

Understand how work-in-progress limits can transform your team's efficiency and speed of delivery

36:50 🚀 From Scrum to Continuous Flow: The Kanban Evolution

Explore how high-performing teams are moving beyond rigid sprint boundaries to a more flexible, value-driven approach

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Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss:

00:00 Intro
00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding
11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load
14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records
18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE
27:10 Scaling startup infrastructure efficiently
41:30 Zarar’s crazy story about his old boss
42:53 Viability of one-stack frameworks like Elixir LiveView and OneStack
49:50 Where does AI fit in current and future development workflows?

Book link: https://www.amazon.ca/DevOps-Desperate-Hands-Survival-Guide/dp/1718502486/

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Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss:

How to Shift Left on Accessibility
Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product
What developers need to known about accessibility
How does shift left work with accessibility
Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products
Are Ontario accessibility guidelines too onerous?
Big Tech / operating systems handing accessibilities, which companies are getting it right
Much more...

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John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-design

Topics include:

What does software complexity look like?
How do we identify complexity before it develops?
The importance of continuous refactoring
What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
What John thinks of agile
Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Topics include:

What does software complexity look like?
How do we identify complexity before it develops?
The importance of continuous refactoring
What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
What John thinks of agile
Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Tom Howlett, Head of Product Management at Sonar is our guest today. Sonar is the leader in helping engineers write clean code through continuous feedback during the development process, and is trusted by millions of developers worldwide.

We talk about:

The idea of "Start Left" and how it ties into "Shift Left"
Gen AI in developer workflows and how it promotes TDD
How does Sonar empower development teams? What's the role of the PM?
What constitutes a bad test?
Will static code analysis ever eliminate the need for pen testing?
How can static code analysis catch bugs across integration boundaries?
What does a team at Sonar look like?
Is there a QA or BA role at Sonar?
What makes Sonar a great place to work

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Max Tykhenko, Security Architect from IBM joins the podcast to talk about:

What are the attack surfaces that most people don't think about enough?
How has the security landscape changed over the last few years in terms of threat detection. How vulnerable are we than how we were 10 years ago?
We all know what shift left generally means, but what does it mean for security? Analyzing this question from a developer and management point of view.

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Frederic Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, from kubefirst.io joins the podcast to dive into GitOps. We discuss:

What is GitOps?
How GitOps can help orgs manage their infrastructure
How to get started
Secrets management
Monorepos

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Elisabeth Hendrickson, author of the hugely impactful book, Explore It! joins the podcast to talk

How the Explore It! text came to be
What is it about testing that tends to make it a gate rather than part of development
How we can scale XP practices
Importance of focus and how XP helps achieve it.
How to deal with resistance when introducing XP practices
How to maintain customer centricity while scaling
How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Project Manager patterns
Simpler Machines - a newsletter recommendation from Elisabeth: https://simplermachines.gumroad.com/

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Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing

Steve Pereira, author of "Flow Engineering: From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action", joins the podcast to talk about how to convert your glorious Value Stream Map into actual actions which actual people can actually do to see actual results in the actual world.

About the book
https://itrevolution.com/product/flow-engineering/

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Jeff "Chezzy" Morgan, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi address a listener question about Scrum ant-patterns. Halfway through talking about this topic we realized that this episode could easily be three hours long, but we resisted yet managed to unmask a few of them.

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Ian Gartley, Principal Engineer from Varo Bank, formerly of Meta and RBC, joins the podcast. Topics below, timestamps are approximate:

00:00 - Putting “Ex-Meta” on LinkedIn Profiles
02:15: What makes a good intermediate developer hiring interview question? / MVP Architectures
11:30 - Challenges with MicroServices / Convenience of Sidecars
23:30 - Orchestration Layers, GraphQL and Distributed Queries
32:00: Why does it take 10 different engineers to make one change?
49:15: Functional programming languages encouraging better testing patterns / mocking private functions / creator/mutator pattern
61:03: Whose job is it to write requirements?

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Zarar Siddiqi is joined by Paul Henman (https://torontoagilecoach.ca/) to talk about:

Recent Kanban Courses he's taken and what's taught there - Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, Kanban System Improvement, and what they can teach you
Applying Kanban Concepts to Scrum, e.g., WIP Limit, Small Batch Sizes etc.
What Paul might do differently now that he's more aware of Kanban concepts
Good reads about how to improve flow
Which framework to use based on team maturity
Tie in to XP and Continuous Delivery

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Jason Little talks his new book about change management with Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczki.

Buy it here: https://www.amazon.ca/Six-Big-Ideas-Adaptive-Organizations/dp/B0D3QV5FYQ/

Jason Little and Ken Richard's site:
https://leanchange.org/

Jason's site:
https://www.agilecoach.ca/

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Csaba, Gino and Zarar talk about how project management systems like Jira create bloat in how we work. And suggest some ideas.

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Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi bring back the pod after a long hiatus and we talk about Gino's hopes and dreams of applying continuous delivery to weird cases. Follow us wherever you find podcasts.

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Zarar get some coaching about how to handle a situation where he's being asked to plan in advance. Will he fall to the powers of corporate agile bullshit, or die trying not to?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi.

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What does shift left mean in terms of technology, processes and agile?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi.

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We discuss why transformations fail and whether it's even possible for a transformation to succeed, or whether there's even a thing called a transformation?

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Happy New Year! The podcast enters its third year, and today the discussion starts with microservices versus modules, and expands to a bunch of other topics including the necessary architectures required for continuous delivery.

Here's the article referenced early in the podcast: http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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What must you be able to do before you can say you're doing continuous delivery? Feature flags? Trunk-based development? No QA environments? We tackle the myths and the necessities.

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Back after a long break, we talk about something called the Testing Trophy, which is an alternate take on the Testing Pyramid. We discuss whether it could be useful.

Testing Trophy: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/the-testing-trophy-and-testing-classifications

Martin Fowler piece: https://martinfowler.com/articles/2021-test-shapes.html

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How do you hire talent if you are striving for Continuous Delivery? We talk about the different tactics and principles at play when building your team, including interview techniques.

With Csaba Bereczki, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

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Regression testing sounds like a good idea, when in reality it is a speed-killing anti-pattern. We discuss alternatives.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

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Backlog refinement is an activity used by teams to look ahead to future work. This is a noble idea but can lead to significant amounts of waste if a team isn't careful.

With Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Why do teams stop caring about metrics they collectively agreed were important? How do we identify metrics that matter and get the most value out of them?

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, and Zarar Siddiqi.

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How do avoid the waste of bureaucracy seeping into engineering teams?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Burn your boats...I mean staging environments. We discuss how to setup your workflow, architecture and testing practices so you're able to confidently ship to production.

The article referenced at the start of the podcast: https://squeaky.ai/blog/development/why-we-dont-use-a-staging-environment

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We discuss how to possibly do continuous delivery when big hairy monstrosities like Salesforce and Camunda are in the picture.

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How do we build teams that retain good practices and continue to inspect and adapt well after the coach departs?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, and Zarar Siddiqi.

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How to deal with your organization frowning on experimentation.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, and Stacey Vetzal.

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If a team's development process changes, the first thing to do is see what automation needs to be built in their communication platform, e.g., Slack. Or so say some folk.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Your organization has too many processes and policies to deliver continuously? There's still ways to improve and get there.

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BDD - evil incarnate or helpful tool? Collaboration catalyst or catastrophic waste?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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We dig into the fuzzy boundaries between architectural controls and team autonomy to come up with key principles to stick to.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Do we need to use a framework like Scrum or a method like Kanban to deliver continuously?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi.

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We discuss the major blockers to companies adopting continuous delivery practices, and hypothesize on a root cause.

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What's needed before development can start cranking out stuff? Two sprints worth of stories? Visual designs? Wrong.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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What behaviours does it drive? How does it impact continuous delivery? Could something good come out of it? Where can I get me a full stack resource?

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Stacey Vetzal and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Deployment Frequency is the top DORA metricsc. Why should Product Owners care about this seemingly "technical" metric?

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The crew is joined by Ron Quartel from fastagile.io to talk about his ideas on what's next after continuous delivery. Hint: lot of reteaming and very short-term planning. Also, tons of open space.

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Can't resist the temptation of a spike? In this episode we discuss this XP concept and talk about when they could be applicable, when to avoid them, how to write them and whether we really need them.

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How do solve for complexity without making things even more complex? Only God knows but here's what we think.

With Csaba Bereczki, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Can Story Mapping be useful? You bet. Can it be a giant waste of time? You bet.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Story Mapping PDF: https://www.jpattonassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/story_mapping.pdf

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When can Scrum Masters be useful and when do you not need one?

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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What is it about end-to-end tests that provide the illusion of quality and how can we do better?

With Csaba Bereczki, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Stacey Vetzal.

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/u/flipstables on Reddit had a drunk post titled "Things I've Learned as a Sr. Engineer". In this episode we look at some of the drunken insights that came to light.

With Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. If you enjoy the show, please do rate us in your favourite podcast app.

Here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/drunk_post_things_ive_learned_as_a_sr_engineer/

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So your team has loads of technical debt and you can't get "permission" to fix it. We got you.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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Why not just cut up the design from Figma into user stories and deliver them blindly?

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

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The gang tackles things that annoy them. It's pet peeves time and on the docket are technical stories, Product Owners delegating to Business Analysts, people fungibility, testing approaches and state management.

Blog post referenced in podcast about state management: https://zararsiddiqi.com/avoiding-duplication-in-state-management/

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How can innovation and resiliency be achieved through intentionally injecting chaos into our systems?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi and Stacey Vetzal.

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If there was such a thing, what would a good fluency model look like?

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Kent Beck had four software design rules, we dissect two of them: reveals intention, fewest elements.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

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If you're not prepared to respond to a metric, don't measure it. We discuss how to evaluate which metrics can be useful and which harmful.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

How do you test and not test commercial off-the-shelf software integrations?

With Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

What's the value of reteaming and how do you go about it?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

What are the types of conflict that arise on a team and what are some tools we can use to navigate them?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

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In this episode we go back to the basics and ask why someone would be considering continuous delivery.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Kanban's more than pain medication for Scrum. In this episode we discuss what early steps teams can take to make the most out of Kanban.

With Csaba Bereczki, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

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Delivering software often depends on people who work deep in the organization's architecture on system of records like mainframes. How does a cross-functional team higher in the stack collaborate with the critical people working on these systems?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

What's a definition of done, how to create one and what to avoid when doing so.

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi and Stacey Vetzal.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

How does Continuous Delivery which focuses on shipping small increments jive with the idea that user stories should be vertical end-to-end slices that deliver complete functionality?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

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Podcast listener, Vitalii, asks how to use Scrum when the primary responsibility of the team is software maintenance and fixing complicated bugs which are hard to reproduce and take a long time to fix? How do we measure value when all we do is fix bugs?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Accompanying post:
https://zararsiddiqi.com/bug-fixes-and-scrum/

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What's the problem DevOps is trying to solve? Perhaps answering that question can lead us to a definition for this often used and more often abused term.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Techniques for framing continuous delivery
Must-haves before you start
The continuous delivery MVP

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Why monoliths are bad
Strategies for breaking them up
Why monoliths are good

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Importance of refactoring
When to refactor
Refactor != Redesign
Cost of not refactoring

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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In this episode we discuss whether we need agile to continuously deliver.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Why high Work in Progress is harmful
Types of WIP
Why WIP runs high
Non-software WIP

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Use cases for mocking
Feature toggles and mocking combination
Avoiding complexity
Mocking anti-patterns
As a proxy for software design quality
Mocking in legacy systems code

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

What is Cost of Delay?
Calculating CoD
Alternative approaches when not applicable
Issues with CoD

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Principles of Product Development Flow
https://www.amazon.ca/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-Generation/dp/1935401009

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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

Topics:

What is DORA?
Usefulness of DORA
What DORA doesn't tell you

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

State of Devops Report 2019
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/state-of-devops-2019.pdf

Topics:

Purpose of "Sprint Zero"
Goal-setting techniques
Alignment techniques
Aligning on technical practices through codestorming
Organizational practices thrust upon the team
Psychological safety and feedback

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Hello Continuous Delivery Podcast listener - please do rate this podcast in your podcast app. We appreciate it.

Topics:

Can we have good, fast and cheap?
When can quality be sacrificed?
Quality vs Cost or Quality vs Change
Is quality a prerequisite for speed?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Should a Product Owner be "approving" user stories?
Is story acceptance a gate?
Collaboration as an alternate to approval
Making Product Owners feel safe so they trust the team
Leadership behaviours that seek blame to avoid responsibility

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Responsibility Process: https://responsibility.com/responsibility-process/

Aligned Autonomy: https://medium.com/@richardlennox/balancing-autonomy-and-alignment-with-accountability-3a0dabe98a95

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Topics:

The automated visual regression pitch
What to watch out for when using tools like Playwright, Cypress
Alternate ways to achieve same objective

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Cost of dependency management vs cost of dependency elimination
Technical ways of managing dependencies
Organizational structure as the root cause
Patterns on dealing with dependencies

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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Recorded on August 13, 2020 at the Firkin Pub in Toronto, the crew peg back a variety of beverages and discuss mobbing.

Topics:

What is mobbing?
Mobbing gone wrong
Senior and junior team member's view of mobbing
Mobbing with Product Owners
Team norms and mobbing

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Topics:

Dealing with a team new to continuous delivery
Impact of autonomy on team culture
What we take away when we don't give autonomy
The road matters as much as the result
Quickest way to burnout

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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Topics:

Effects of asynchronous code reviews
PRs prohibiting refactoring
Pros of using Pull Requests
Norms to consider for PRs
The code review mindset
Pull Request retros
Alternative approaches

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

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We welcome two champions of agile software development, Chet Hendrickson and Ron Jeffries. With the backdrop of Continuous Delivery we discuss a variety of topics ranging from the motivations behind the manifesto to what's next in agile software development.

Also with Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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Topics:

Agile coaching turns soft
Consulting companies money-grabbing
Developers rejecting agile
Agile turning from an adjective to a noun
The agile cloak giving organizations a reason not to change
Capital "A" Agile = Waterfall
The benefits and issues with Scrum
Scrum's failure to inspect and adapt
Compliance metrics instead of results
Desire for corporate predictability killing teams
The distance between developers and agile
Should you use a framework?
Much more...

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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Topics:

Design working ahead
Just enough design
Biases in design research
Best way to validate your ideas
Designers working with developers
Designers working wit product managers
How to increase collaboration
Design User Story?

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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Topics:

ActiveRecord as a model for organizing database changes
Applying principles from ActiveRecord today
Database refactoring
Avoiding manual changes to the database
Pipeline activities and data
Data testing techniques
Data management bottlenecks
Some advice on improving data landscapes

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Mastering Git to increase productivity
Source code management making integrating code easier
Biggest thing that Git delivers
Artifact management
Security, compliance and the pipeline's role
Decentralizing the pipeline
How to make smaller changes to reduce merging risk
Creating repositories to pull dependencies
Monorepos

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Estimation in decision-making
Estimation in Continuous Delivery
Culture implications of estimation
No BS Planning Poker
Estimation as a timeboxing tool
No love for timeboxing
When estimations are demanded
Estimation as a communication tool
Projection based on throughput

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

Four types of value.
There is no value, only speculation of value.
Can a Product Owner prioritize based on the different types of values?
The sweet spot of building the right thing, the thing right and building it fast.
The Product Owner as not just a decision-maker but a conduit.
Guidance for Product Owners who are not in a mature CI environment.
Learning beyond the product but the culture.
Is the PO the best we have come up with to prioritize value?
The mindset of the Product Manager vs the Product Owner.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
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Topics:

Architecture is important but what about architects?
Is there a need for a specific role?
The construction analogy.
Frameworks doing the architects job.
The architect as the holder of organizational knowledge.
The "hand on" architect.
The specialist architect.
The architect driving towards simplicity.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/continuouspod

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/

Topics:

The problem with roadmaps
Roadmaps vs Roadmaps
Team's role in managing uncertainty
Product Owner's responding to organizational demands for certainty
Continuous delivery as an aid to learning and managing outcomes

With Csaba Bereczki, Ardita Karaj, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan.

Lean Startup
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup

Escaping the Build Trap
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42611483-escaping-the-build-trap

Powerful Roadmaps
https://leanpub.com/powerfulroadmaps

Twitter
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Topics:

Symptoms of complexity
Causes of complexity
Avoiding complexity
Tension when doing the "right" thing
Organizational complexity impacting system complexity
Preferring "our" complexity over "their" complexity
Models to evaluate complexity, e.g., Cynefin

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

References:

Jeff George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKEveL55TY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuWwlHFdOp8

Stacy Complexity Model
https://managedagile.com/tags/stacey-complexity-model-and-agile/

Philosophy of Software Design
https://www.amazon.ca/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ousterhout/dp/1732102201

Cynefin Framework
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz366X0-8

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A Philosophy of Software Design

Topics:

What is a full-stack developer?
Specialization's effects
Cases where it's easy to become one
Complexity of applications making it harder
Market demand/hiring techniques driving out full-stack developers
Specialization of testing
Capacity planning with/without full-stack developers
New graduates/young developers not knowing advantages

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Topics:

Importance of testing
Why do systems turn legacy
Approaches to take when no documentation exists
Continuous delivery when migrating legacy systems
Avoiding the big bang migration
Dealing with data

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Topics:

Reuse of utility libraries
Challenges with reusing business capabilities
Delivery vs Reuse
Organizational structures setup for reuse
Being offended when your code isn't reused

With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Topics:

What is trunk-based development?
What replaces branches?
What replaces PRs?
Adoption resistance
The prerequisite of quality

With Csaba Bereczki, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

The underlying need when asking for metrics
Gamification
Psychological safety
The mother's ear
Time and place for technical and business metrics

Topics:

What's a feature toggle?
Reducing product risk
Separation of concerns - release vs deploy; preventing accumulation of work
Implementing toggles safely
Measuring impact and answering the question of what's moving the needle
Importance of baseline data
Empowering product roles by giving them control
First steps if you decide to implement feature toggles

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Steve Pereira.

Topics:

Core meaning of continuous delivery
Mindset shifts required to adopt continuous delivery at an organization
Experimental aspect of CD and how organizations can benefit from it
Risk mitigation provided by CD seen as risk exposure
How CD changes the mindset of product managers and product owners

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.

Topics:

Attributes of quality
Quality as a team and not a role's responsibility
Perspectives on quality from different team members
What should be important to a programmer early in their career so they write quality software?
Pride in one's work as an indicator of quality
How the industry's view on quality is screwing up quality
Product/developer tension and its impact on quality
Specialization and hand-offs impacting quality
The education system's impact on early programmers attention to quality
The idea that developer's shouldn't be testing their code because they wrote it
The pitfalls of code coverage as a proxy for quality

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, Zarar Siddiqi.