The Software Delivery Notebook

This week we look at the LeadDev and Honeycomb Engineering Performance report 2025, which is based on 400+ survey responses from engineering leaders. Find out what they’re measuring performance and how they work out whether AI is having an impact.

Based on the 2025 Platform Engineering Pulse report from Octopus, we look at what’s happening in practice. Within the Platform Engineering (PE) community we talk about reducing developer burnout, taking a product not project approach to platforms, and making platforms optional. The reality is that organizations care more about standardization and efficiency and they want […]

DORA has published their latest report and it goes deep into AI-Assisted Software development. It covers the extent of adoption, how it moves the needle on outcomes, and (crucially) what you need in place if you want to succeed. As well as thoughtful and thorough analysis on software delivery with AI assistance, the report also […]

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, […]

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 […]