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…

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 ac…

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…

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…

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 doe…

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 You can follow Fred here: https://twitter.com/fharper YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https…

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 introduc…

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/ Buy the book ht…

Jeff "Chezzy" Morgan, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi address a listener question about Scrum anti-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. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podc…

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 - O…

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 di…

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/ Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12…

Csaba, Gino and Zarar talk about how project management systems like Jira create bloat in how we work. And suggest some ideas. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDM RSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODW Twitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju…

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. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWD…

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. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA Linke…

What does shift left mean in terms of technology, processes and agile? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: #continuousdelivery #podcast #agile YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spo…

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? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA Lin…

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-micr…

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. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: htt…

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 With Csaba Berec…

You can watch this episode on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe to the channel. 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. #continuousdelivery #agile #hi…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ Watch on YouTube: https://…

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. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVu7a5HVdLA Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn …

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. Apple: https://lnkd.in/e3qyzqS Google: https://lnkd.in/efiszyp Spotify: https://lnkd.in/exR9AYc Follow the podcast on Twitter https://tw…

How do avoid the waste of bureaucracy seeping into engineering teams? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, and Zarar Siddiqi. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqsOEIQgd-U Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399... #continuousde…

We're on YouTube! Check out this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXrOyVddsg 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/…

We discuss how to possibly do continuous delivery when big hairy monstrosities like Salesforce and Camunda are in the picture. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple P…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https…

How to deal with your organization frowning on experimentation. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, and Stacey Vetzal. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spo…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/123995…

Your organization has too many processes and policies to deliver continuously? There's still ways to improve and get there. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podca…

BDD - evil incarnate or helpful tool? Collaboration catalyst or catastrophic waste? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bi…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spot…

We discuss the major blockers to companies adopting continuous delivery practices, and hypothesize on a root cause. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2…

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. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Ap…

Deployment Frequency is the top DORA metricsc. Why should Product Owners care about this seemingly "technical" metric? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podca…

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. With Csaba Bereczki, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/…

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. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTu…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: …

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 Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://w…

When can Scrum Masters be useful and when do you not need one? With Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https:/…

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. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple…

/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/dr…

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. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcast…

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. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjt…

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/ With Csaba Bere…

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. Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4…

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/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtc…