The Continuous Delivery Podcast

John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-design

Topics include:

- What does software complexity look like?
- How do we identify complexity before it develops?
- The importance of continuous refactoring
- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
- What John thinks of agile
- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Topics include:

- What does software complexity look like?
- How do we identify complexity before it develops?
- The importance of continuous refactoring
- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
- What John thinks of agile
- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Tom Howlett, Head of Product Management at Sonar is our guest today. Sonar is the leader in helping engineers write clean code through continuous feedback during the development process, and is trusted by millions of developers worldwide.

We talk about:

- The idea of "Start Left" and how it ties into "Shift Left"
- Gen AI in developer workflows and how it promotes TDD
- How does Sonar empower development teams? What's the role of the PM?
- What constitutes a bad test?
- Will static code analysis ever eliminate the need for pen testing?
- How can static code analysis catch bugs across integration boundaries?
- What does a team at Sonar look like?
- Is there a QA or BA role at Sonar?
- What makes Sonar a great place to work

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Max Tykhenko, Security Architect from IBM joins the podcast to talk about:

• What are the attack surfaces that most people don't think about enough? 
• How has the security landscape changed over the last few years in terms of threat detection.  How vulnerable are we than how we were 10 years ago? 
• We all know what shift left generally means, but what does it mean for security? Analyzing this question from a developer and management point of view.

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Frederic Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, from kubefirst.io joins the podcast to dive into GitOps. We discuss:

- What is GitOps?
- How GitOps can help orgs manage their infrastructure
- How to get started
- Secrets management
- Monorepos 

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Elisabeth Hendrickson, author of the hugely impactful book, Explore It! joins the podcast to talk

- How the Explore It! text came to be
- What is it about testing that tends to make it a gate rather than part of development
- How we can scale XP practices
- Importance of focus and how XP helps achieve it. 
- How to deal with resistance when introducing XP practices 
- How to maintain customer centricity while scaling
- How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Project Manager patterns
- Simpler Machines - a newsletter recommendation from Elisabeth: https://simplermachines.gumroad.com/

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Explore-Increase-Confidence-Exploratory-Testing/dp/1937785025

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Steve Pereira, author of "Flow Engineering: From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action", joins the podcast to talk about how to convert your glorious Value Stream Map into actual actions which actual people can actually do to see actual results in the actual world.

About the book
https://itrevolution.com/product/flow-engineering/

Buy the book
https://www.amazon.ca/Value-Stream-Clarity-Steve-Pereira/dp/1950508455

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Jeff "Chezzy" Morgan, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi address a listener question about Scrum anti-patterns. Halfway through talking about this topic we realized that this episode could easily be three hours long, but we resisted yet managed to unmask a few of them. 

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Ian Gartley, Principal Engineer from Varo Bank, formerly of Meta and RBC, joins the podcast.  Topics below, timestamps are approximate:

• 00:00 - Putting “Ex-Meta” on LinkedIn Profiles
• 02:15: What makes a good intermediate developer hiring interview question? / MVP Architectures
• 11:30 - Challenges with MicroServices /  Convenience  of Sidecars
• 23:30 - Orchestration Layers, GraphQL and Distributed Queries
• 32:00: Why does it take 10 different engineers to make one change?
• 49:15: Functional programming languages encouraging better testing patterns / mocking private functions / creator/mutator pattern
• 61:03: Whose job is it to write requirements?

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Zarar Siddiqi is joined by Paul Henman (https://torontoagilecoach.ca/) to talk about:

- Recent Kanban Courses he's taken and what's taught there - Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, Kanban System Improvement, and what they can teach you

- Applying Kanban Concepts to Scrum, e.g., WIP Limit, Small Batch Sizes etc.

- What Paul might do differently now that he's more aware of Kanban concepts

- Good reads about how to improve flow

- Which framework to use based on team maturity

- Tie in to XP  and Continuous Delivery

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Jason Little talks his new book about change management with Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczki.

Buy it here: https://www.amazon.ca/Six-Big-Ideas-Adaptive-Organizations/dp/B0D3QV5FYQ/

Jason Little and Ken Richard's site: 
https://leanchange.org/

Jason's site:
https://www.agilecoach.ca/

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