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Brian Muskoff is the Director of Product Management for HCL Software DevOps. As a Peter-Drucker-nerd (hey, those are his words! :-), he has extensive experience in supporting teams and building tools that support DevOps culture. Listen to our conversation and find out why Value Stream Management should be on your radar and what can you expect if you’re starting with it. We even touched upon AI in the software delivery process – will we ever control software delivery as we’re controlling manufacturing processes?

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #25 - Value Stream Management with Brian Muskoff.
• Value Stream Management Consortium website.
• HCL Accelerate Value Stream Management platform.

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John Allspaw is the founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs and one of the people that drove DevOps movement from its beginnings. His (and Paul Hammond’s) famous “10+ deploys per day at Flickr” talk at Velocity conf in 2009 showed us that there is a better way of collaborating and delivering software. Today, John focuses on helping organizations do better in incident management and learn from their own mistakes. I talked with John about incident management, learning organizations, and how the world has changed since 2009.

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #17 - John Allspaw, resilience engineering and DOES 2020 conference.
• The community sharing stories and learning from incidents.

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Dave Farley is the pioneer of Continuous Delivery. Together with Jez Humble, he wrote a book that paved way for many organizations going through their digital transformation. It’s been 10 years now since the book was first published and a perfect opportunity came up to talk with Dave about the state of Continuous Delivery today. Of course, it was impossible not to touch upon many other topics as well. It was a real pleasure to discuss how technology can help business today.

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #19 - Dave Farley and The state of Continuous Delivery.

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Christina Wodtke worked in the product development space in companies such as Zynga, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. She is also a Stanford professor and author of several books, most notably The Team That Managed Itself and Radical Focus. Her experience in developing teams is precious - we talked about empowered teams, OKRs, and the 2nd edition of her bestseller Radical Focus.

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #24 - Empowered teams with Christina Wodtke.
• The 2nd edition of Radical Focus went public on April 20th, 2021

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I’ve heard rants before (mostly from my friend Davor Čengija) how projects suck and how they result in The Inverse Boy Scout Rule – they leave the product in worse condition than they found it in.

But it wasn’t until I heard Mik Kersten‘s talk on DOES 2020 and read his book that I really understood the reasoning behind it. Mik has a lot of experience in delivering software as well as in leadership positions. Precisely this experience made him realize that there’s something wrong with the way we deliver software. Local optimizations and the lack of end-to-end value stream visibility caused many successful organizations to go under. Pair that with a traditional (but still present) mindset that IT is a cost center, and you are truly set for a disaster in today’s economy.

I spoke with Mik about problems in software delivery today and the disconnect between the Business and the IT that many organizations experience.

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #18 - Mik Kersten, Project to Product and a handful of good virtual conferences.

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Alanna Brown is Sr. Director Marketing at Puppet and a person standing behind the State of DevOps report from the very beginning. I talked with Alanna about key insights from the latest 2020 State of DevOps but we also touched upon the past and how the report came to life, a story that few people are familiar with.

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #20 - 2020 State of DevOps Report.
• 2020 State of DevOps is available here.

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Rosalind Radcliffe is Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DevOps on z Systems at IBM. Without any questions, she is the go-to resource for Z systems. In her career, she has been on both sides of the DevOps fence, so tearing that fence down came naturally for her. In this episode, I talked to Rosalind on how Z platform is evolving and supporting modern DevOps way of working.

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Show notes:

• This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #23 – Rosalind Radcliffe, DevOps on Z and measuring productivity with SPACE framework.

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