Developer Workflows from Planning to Production

The Continuous Delivery Podcast

The Continuous Delivery Podcast
Developer Workflows from Planning to Production
Jan 14, 2026
Zarar Siddiqi

The team debates AI development workflows, introduces Stride (a multi-agent requirements system), and discusses whether programming languages and software engineering principles still matter when AI writes most of your code. They explore how product management is transforming as iteration costs plummet and MVPs now take hours instead of weeks.

  • Ancillary AI Development Tools - Tools built on AI models like OpenSpec, SpecKit, and Kiro.dev that help with planning and design before coding
  • Planning vs. Direct Implementation - Debate on whether extensive planning (BDD/Given-When-Then) is needed or if iterative development with AI works better
  • Stride Requirements System - Cheesy's Kanban-based tool that manages multi-agent workflows, prevents merge conflicts, and matches tasks to agent capabilities
  • Does Programming Language Matter? - Whether language choice still matters when AI generates code, and if developers will let AI select languages based on accuracy
  • Product Management Transformation - How PM roles are shifting from managing backlogs to rapid prototyping with drastically reduced iteration costs
  • Code Review and AI Trust - Evolution from reviewing every AI-generated line to relying on automated checks as confidence increases
  • Software Engineering Principles - Whether core principles (DRY, SOLID, clean code) remain important - consensus is yes, they help AI work more effectively


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Episode Artwork Developer Workflows from Planning to Production 39:23 Episode Artwork Team Sizes, Trust, and Testing in an AI-First World 37:04 Episode Artwork Has AI made the Agile Manifesto obsolete? 43:28 Episode Artwork AIs impact on DORA Continuous Delivery Metrics 36:59 Episode Artwork Getting Kanban Right, with Fernando Cuenca 52:30 Episode Artwork Architecting for Growth, with Brad Smith 1:03:20 Episode Artwork Shifting Left on Accessibility, with Patrick Dunphy 37:54 Episode Artwork Managing Software Complexity with John Ousterhout 49:31 Episode Artwork Empowered Developers Write Clean Code, Tom Howlett, Head of Product at Sonar 32:14 Episode Artwork How to Shift Left on Security 36:03 Episode Artwork Getting into GitOps with Fred Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, kubefirst.io 38:35 Episode Artwork Focus to Scale: Amplifying XP Practices with Elisabeth Hendrickson 39:57 Episode Artwork Value Stream Mapping is Not Enough with Steve Pereira 39:52 Episode Artwork Nightmare on Scrum Street: Scrum Anti-Patterns 28:52 Episode Artwork Engineering Insights: From Meta to Microservices with Ian Gartley 1:14:44 Episode Artwork Get the Lowdown on these Kanban Courses Floating Around 34:40 Episode Artwork Ep. 85: Change Management is Not Linear - Jason Little talks Six Big Ideas 37:51 Episode Artwork Ep. 84: How Jira ruined agile 19:59 Episode Artwork Ep. 83: You applied continuous delivery to WHAT? 22:44 Episode Artwork Ep. 82: I want the next 40 sprints planned in advance 20:03 Episode Artwork Ep 81: What does Shift Left mean? 18:29 Episode Artwork Ep. 80: The Liquid Death of Failed Transformations 18:03 Episode Artwork Ep. 79: Necessary Architectures for Continuous Delivery 22:37 Episode Artwork Ep. 78: Are you doing Continuous Delivery? 26:43 Episode Artwork Ep. 77: The Testing Trophy 15:25