This episodes look at the white paper Achieving Continuous Delivery With TPF by Bob Walker at Octopus Deploy. TPF is a set of three practices that can solve many CI/CD pipeline problems. Find out the core problems and how TPF helps, with some case studies that might hit close to home. TPF is much simpler, […]
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Westrum’s study of information flow
Ron Westrum is famous for his classification of organizational culture, but he’s also done great work on hidden events, and information flow. This episode looks at Westrum’s study of information flow and it contains highly relevant lessons for all organizations, not just safety-critical industries. When information fails to flow, it stops the “safe and proper […]
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Unpacking Weinberg’s laws of consulting
Based on a list of laws, rules, and principles that span Gerald M. Weinberg’s two books on The Secrets of Consulting. These laws are a helpful and amusing way to get into the consultant mindset. They include The First Law of Consulting: In spite of what your client may tell you, there’s always aproblem. And […]
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Compliance through Continuous Delivery
Based on the financial industry survey by Octopus and their Compliance through Continuous Delivery report, this episode shows how recent regulations are increasing the pressure for regulated companies to improve their software delivery performance. You can’t meet the requirements without having a path to production that applies to all changes, whether they are routine features […]
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Why software projects fail
Let’s look at a classic software projects paper published in The Journal of Defense Software Engineering in March 2005. It discusses why software projects fail so often. Some of the concepts discussed are old school and the criteria for success aren’t what we’d use today, but it’s a fascinating snapshot of the problems that were […]
Presented by Google's NotebookLM hosts, The Software Delivery Notebook (SDN) takes a dive into white papers and other industry content to provide a 20 minute summary.