Software Delivery in Small Batches

This one comes from the episode jar. Canary deploys use deploy an experimental change prior to a larger change. If the canary change is successful, then proceed as normal. Otherwise, back off and readjust.

Free Resources

• NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• The Flow Collective
• DevOps Email Course
• Project to Product Email Course
• War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide

Links

• Adam Hawkins on Twitter
• Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
• Adam Hawkins' website
• Release It!

A look into the ideas of empiricism, iteration, and incrementalism applied to software engineering. These are the code ideas of Dave Farley's 2022 book "Modern Software Engineering".

Learn More

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• 📘 Modern Software Engineering
• 📘 The Pragmatic Programmer
• ☕️ Small Batches #17: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley
• ☕️ Small Batches #61: Extreme Programming Explained
• 📺 Dave's Continuous Delivery YouTube Channel

Adam presents "The Four Types of Problems" by Art Smalley. The types are troubleshooting, gap from standard, target condition, and open-ended.

Learn More

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #53: The Toyota Way
• ☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
• 📘 The Four Types of Problems
• 📘 The Toyota Kata

Let's go back in time to linger on the works of the master thinkers. This episode presents Kent Beck's book "Extreme Programming Explained". I'm hard-pressed to find anything that's irrelevant or that I disagree with.

Links

• Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley
• Extreme Programming at Pivotal

Adam presents a summary of Donald Reinertsen's 2009 book. Tl;DR: understand the price of work, optimize for flow through queues, use WIP constraints, reduce batch sizes, and prefer decentralization.

Learn More

• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• 🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence
• ☕️ Small Batches #59: Time Thieves
• ☕️ Small Batches #58: Queuing Theory
• 📘 Principles of Product Development Flow

Adam presents the "five time thieves" described in Dominica DeGrandis' book Making Work Visible. The thieves are: too much WIP (work-in-progress), unknown dependencies, conflicting priorities, neglected work, and (the most annoying of the bunch) interrupts.

Learn More

• ☕️ Small Batches #60: Principles of Product Development Flow
• ☕️ Small Batches #58: Queuing Theory
• 📘 Principles of Product Development Flow
• 📘 Making Work Visible
• 🧠 Dominica DeGrandis on the Profound Podcast

Adam presents applying the mathematics behind queueing theory to software delivery. Also, an announcement!

Links

• NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
• 🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.
• ☕️ Small Batches #59: Time Thieves
• ☕️ Small Batches #60: Principles of Product Development Flow
• 📘 Principles of Product Development Flow
• 📘 Making Work Visible

Entries include:

• Software Delivery KPIs
• Lead Time
• Deployment Frequency
• MTTR (Mean-time-to-resolve)
• Change Failure Rate
• Jidoka
• Kaizen
• Type 3 Problems: target-condition

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The third of a three-part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira.

Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group.

Adam and Steve come back to the fractal nature of flow, value streams, and where to start with improving flow.

Do you like this topic? Come join Steve and I in the Flow Collective.

Free Resources

• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• The Flow Collective
• DevOps Email Course
• Project to Product Email Course
• War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide

Links

• The Flow Collective
• Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course

The second of a three part conversation on flow engineering with Steve Pereira.

Steve Pereira, aka "The Value Stream Guy", is the author of the Flow Engineering ebook, founder of Visible Consulting, and co-founder of the Flow Collective peer group.

Steve goes deeper into flow engineering and the four maps: outcome, value streams, dependencies, and capabilities.

Do you like this topic? Come join Steve and I in the Flow Collective.

Free Resources

• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• The Flow Collective
• DevOps Email Course
• Project to Product Email Course
• War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide

Links

• The Flow Collective
• Free 7 Day Flow Engineering Email Course