Profound

In this episode, I'm joined by Mark Burgess. Mark founded CFEngine, Promise Theory, and Infrastructure as Code. Mark holds a Ph.D. in physics. He is an author of several books, including one of my favorites, "In Search of Certainty." He has been working on a project called the Semantic Spacetime Project for over a decade. I've known Mark for almost a decade now, and we always have a great time discussing important IT topics. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Deming's work through the lenses of complexity, non-determinism, and quantum physics. You can find all of Mark's work on his website ( http://markburgess.org/index.html ). 

In this episode I catchup with the author of the "DevSecOps: A leader’s guide to producing secure software without compromising flow, feedback and continuous improvement" book., Glenn Wilson.  Glenn is an active participant in the DevOps and DevSecOps communities.  He is also an emerging student of Dr. Deming.  We talk about Glenn's Deming journey as well as how DevSecOps and Dr. Deming's work align well.   Look for Glenn's book on Amazon. 

In this podcast, I just go off on a tangent about my Deming ideas. I've been listening to some old Deming podcasts where everyone is asked what was their aha moment when they learned about Deming. In an interview with Bob Brown, CEO of Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company, he remarked that he has never had a single aha moment in his life, it was a journey for him. I concur with myself; this is how I felt. To me, it seemed fitting to walk my aha journey.

Dennis Schlagheck is the author of a book about Hawthorne Works ( https://bit.ly/37UGQoH ). We discuss all things related to the Western Electric Hawthorne factory.  For those Deming geeks, this is where Dr. Deming spent two summers interning while he was in college.  It's also where Walter Shewhart invented Statistical Process Control.  Hawthorne was sort of like a modern-day Apple or Xerox PARC.  You also had the Hawthorn Studies (famous Hawthorne Effect) coming out of thier in the 1920s.  Dennis and I have had a great conversation about work, life, and,  community at the factory from the early 1900s.  This is a fantastic interview. 

Great conversation with Carmen DeArdo. Carmen actually attended some of Deming’s lectures in the 1980’s when he worked for Bell Labs. He also discusses how he used Dr. Deming ideas in large insurance companies. 

Harper Reed was the CTO of the Obama campaign.  We talked about how he wound up as the CTO. We also talked about how they employed a lot of Agile and DevOps during the campaign.  This is another great podcast. 

I love doing podcasts with people I really like.  A few years back I wrote an Introduction to DevOps course for edX and found Elisabeth Hendrickson's work testing extremely helpful.  Since then I've been a big fan of her work.  We talked about her career in systems and testing and some of the new stuff she is working on.  Hope you enjoy it.

This is part 2 of my Keven Behr interview.  We continue the discussion on Deming and Toyota.  We also go a little deep into the Theory of Constraints and Goldratt's work. 

In this podcast, I get to chat with Kevin Behr (co-author of The Phoenix Project).  We discuss Deming's influence on Japan and modern commerce.  Kevin has an interesting perspective on Toyota and Japanese culture.  We also talk about the concept of a "Humble Student" and why Deming's message might have penetrated deeply as part of the Miracle in Japan. 

In this episode, Josh and I discuss the history of sBOM's, Deming and Goldratt's influence on software supply chain as well as COVID's Operation Warp Speed.  I always say I'm a passionate person about IT, Josh is a passionate person about saving lives.  This is a fantastic episode.