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? 

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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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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 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. 

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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.

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

Jason's site:
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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?

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

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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.

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

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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

With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi.

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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.

#continuousdelivery #agile #hiring

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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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