In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Betty Zakheim, VP of Industrial Strategy for Tasktop and treating software development as a value stream which starts with an idea and goes through to getting feedback from real customers.

Why listen to this podcast:

- We often forget about the aspects of the requirements which are beyond the written word

- Debunking the stereotypes of software developmentUsing the Definition of Done to encourage shifting responsibilities and agile practices left and right of the development team

- The intent and promise of DevOps is to see the business of software development as a holistic business process from ideation through to production and feedback loops

- The ideal stand-alone, cross-functional team is probably not possible in complex organizations

- The currencies of communication – how we speak to each other across disciplines and how we convey information to each other across the value stream

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