Better ROI from Software Development

By Red Folder Consultancy Ltd

Providing advice on how to get the best Return On Investment from your Software Development.

Hosted by Mark Taylor of Red Folder Consultancy, this series is targeted at those that fund software develo... more

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The podcast currently has 206 episodes available.

Better ROI from Software Development episodes:

June 08, 2022#135: Infrastructure-as-Code
In this episode I introduce Infrastructure-as-Code - a way of defining your Operation's infrastructure as code - an example of DevOps in practice with our Ops teams learning from our Dev teams.
Why you may be interested in this episode:
For an explanation of Infrastructure-as-Code

The advantages of using it

And some of the common excuses for not using it - and how to address them
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12min
May 31, 2022 #134: DevOps Topologies - Working types
In this episode I want to continue the talk about the team structures discussed on https://web.devopstopologies.com/ - with a focus this week on the topologies are shown to work.
The devopstopologies.com website is based on the work by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais. I introduced Matthew and Manual as authors of the Team Topologies book in the last episode. The work is a pre-cursor to the Team Topologies book - and work that I feel stands on its own two feet - with a specific look into how teams should work together to gain benefits from DevOps.
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15min
May 25, 2022 #133: DevOps Topologies - Anti-Types
In this episode I want to talk about the team structures discussed on https://web.devopstopologies.com/ - with a focus this week on the anti-types.
The devopstopologies.com website is based on the work by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais. I introduced Matthew and Manual as authors of the Team Topologies book in the last episode. The work is a pre-cursor to the Team Topologies book - and work that I feel stands on its own two feet - with a specific look into how teams should work together to gain benefits from DevOps.
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/133
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12min
May 11, 2022#132: Inverse Conway Maneuver
In the last episode, I introduced "Conway's Law" - an observation of how our organisational structures influence our software structures.
In this episode, I want to talk about how we can utilise this law when we want to improve problems in our software structures - commonly referred to as the "Inverse Conway Maneuver".
Why you might be interested in this episode:
A recap of Conway's Law and the negatives you may be observing

How the same law can be used to re-organise our teams to improve on those negatives

Ideas from the "Team Topologies" book which build on this to define 4 team types and 3 team interaction modes for improving the flow of our software change
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/132
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11min
May 04, 2022#131: Conway's Law
In this episode, I introduce Conway's Law, which talks about how our software structures will reflect the structures of the organisations that create them.
Why you might be Interested in this episode:
Why our organisational structures affect software structure

The history of "Conway's Law"

The negatives that the Law can help us highlight

And why the adoption of Microservices and small Cross Functional Teams helps to alleviate those negatives
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/131
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8min
April 27, 2022#130: To Checklist or not to Checklist
This episode, I want to take a look at Checklists - when to use and when not to.
Much of this episode is inspired by the Sight Reliability Engineering practices that come out of Google.
Why you might be interested in this episode
The value of a checklist

Situations where it is appropriate

And situations where it isn't
CORRECTION: During the episode I refer to "The Manifest Checklist" - this should have been "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right" by Atul Gawande
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/130
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9min
April 13, 2022#129: Handling Failure
Failure in our software systems is inevitable - be it a failing hard drive, broken network cable, power outage, virus, or simply a bug in the code.
"Hope is not a strategy" - thus we need to think about how we handle that failure.
Why you might be interesting in this episode:
The differences between how failures impact our traditional monolith applications and the more modern distributed application

To gain an understanding of the terms like Graceful Degredation, Cascading Failure, The Retry software pattern, The Circuit Breaker software pattern, and Deadline Propagation

And advice on how to find opportunities to use them
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/129
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15min
April 06, 2022#128: Error Budgets
In this episode, I take a look at "Error Budgets"
Much of this episode is inspired by the Sight Reliability Engineering practices that come out of Google
Why you might be interested in this episode:
You want to understand what "Error Budgets" means?

You're struggling to prioritise effectively between feature development, defects, risk and debt

You want to see how "Error Budgets" can help you with that prioritisation
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/128
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10min
March 30, 2022#127: System Availability - Service Level Indicators, Objectives and Agreements
In this episode, I take a look at how to measure the availability of our systems.
Much of this episode is inspired by the Sight Reliability Engineering practices that come out of Google
Why you might be interested in this episode
How Google uses Service Level Indicators, Objectives and Agreements

Why 100% uptime might not be the correct target

And why "uptime" might not be the best indicator in the first place
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/127
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11min
March 23, 2022#126: State of DevOps 2021 - What it says about Site Reliability Engineering
The State of DevOps report provides excellent insight through rigorous analysis of its wide reaching survey.
The research provides evidence-based guidance to help focus on the capabilities that drive performance.
One of those are Site Reliability Engineering practices that came out Google's efforts to handle massive scale.
Why you might be interesting in this episode:
What is Site Reliability Engineering

How does it relate to DevOps

What correlation the report found in Site Reliability Engineering use
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Find this episodes show notes at: https://red-folder.com/podcasts/126
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12min

FAQs about Better ROI from Software Development:

How many episodes does Better ROI from Software Development have?

The podcast currently has 206 episodes available.