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Nathen Harvey needs little introduction in DevOps community. He is Developer Advocate at Google, co-author of State of DevOps Report and co-author of a great book called “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know”. We talked about insights and surprises from this year’s State of DevOps Report. And Nathen shared his view on recent hot takes that “DevOps is dead” 🙂 Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newslet...

Jonathan Smart is a business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and the author of a bestseller "Sooner Safer Happier". Jon wrote this book based on his vast experience working in enterprises such as Barkleys Bank and Deloitte. I honestly wish I had this book 10 years ago, so many conversations would be much easier back then. Listen to our conversation on delivering B etter V al...

Fabio Pereira is a speaker, writer, and technologist dedicated to a very noble cause of raising the digital consciousness in the world. We spoke about digital nudging and the power that organizations building digital products have over our lives. Hint: it’s more than you think! Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here . Show notes: - This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #40 - Digital nudging...

David Anderson currently works at Bazaarvoice as Technical Fellow. Before that, he was CTO leading an organizational transformation at Liberty Mutual aimed at generating more value for the clients by using serverless architectures and better ways of working. David shared his experience and lessons learned in the book "The Value Flywheel Effect" and I got the chance to hear it first-hand....

Investments Unlimited is the latest novel by IT Revolution helping organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. I had a great conversation during DevOps Enterprise Summit Europe 2022 with co-authors Tapabrata “Topo” Pal , Michael Edenzon , John Rzeszotarski, Jason Cox , and Bill Bensing . Listen all about governance in DevOps, how you...

Mish Middelmann is certified leadership and systemic team coach. Mish is a part of Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching network (better known as ORSC) and he spent a great weekend with my group teaching us how to apply ORSC principles to our daily work. I stole some of his time to talk about systemic coaching in tech organizations. And I learned a valuable lesson – never do an interview...

Matt K. Parker is the author of a freshly released book A Radical Enterprise . I had a chance to read it and it sums up beautifully where modern-day enterprises should be heading today if they want to keep pace with others in the future. Listen to the conversation where Matt describes 4 basic imperatives that radically collaborative organizations excel at. Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here...

Scott Prugh is CTO at CSG International and one of the people I admire a lot for his perseverance and dedication in making a 35-yo large enterprise embrace modern ways of working. He is an active member of the DevOps community and a member of the DevOps Enterprise Summit conference programming committee. We had a great conversation about their DevOps transformation at CSG. Folks at large enterpris...

What if you could make decisions in your development teams based on pure data from your developer tools? I had a great conversation with Maxim Wheatley and Hezheng Yin from Merico about developer productivity and how their DevLake tool supports it. Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here . Show notes: - This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #33 - How sharpening the saw and being the glue make...

Steve Pereira is helping organizations do better by focusing on value streams. He is a Board Advisor at Value Stream Management Consortium and rumor has it that we can soon expect a book! I talked to Steve about Value Stream Management and Flow Engineering. Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here . Show notes: - This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #31 - The Revolution in SDLC and Flow Engin...

Heidi Helfand is VP of Engineering Growth at Kin Insurance and the author of Dynamic Reteaming, a book that casts a whole new light on forming and growing teams. In these fast-moving times, changing your team formation effectively is the most sought-after organizational superpower. I talked to Heidi about fundamental reteaming patterns and her experience in growing organizations. Subscribe to 0800...

Nigel Kersten is Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the 2021 State of DevOps Report. I talked to Nigel about the 10th anniversary of the Report, the latest insights, and how come some enterprises are stuck on their DevOps journey. It was also interesting to hear what happens behind the curtains to produce the Report that we all sometimes take for granted. Do. Not. Miss. Subscribe to 080...

Courtney Kissler is CTO at Zulily, an e-commerce company. She has an impressive career in the retail space as former Vice President of Digital Platform Engineering at Nike, and before that, she helped in building digital platforms at Starbucks and Nordstrom. Don’t miss our conversation – Courtney is describing her recipe for successful collaboration with consulting companies. Subscribe to 0800-DEV...

Working in the field of cloud native and DevOps, I get to talk to many interesting people and one of them is Michael Heiß, Cloud Computing Business Leader at ARS. Michael works in the same area of helping enterprise organizations embrace new ways of working. Listen to our conversation on typical challenges that enterprise organizations face and what can they do to “turn the ship around”. Subscribe...

Although taken a year ago, this is still one of my favorite interviews. Not to mention it was my first non-written interview – hence the confusion and a questionable mic quality – but talking to Tanya was great! Tanya Janca is a super kind person bringing a security focus to DevOps movement. After working for the government and Microsoft, Tanya is now focused on consulting and education. I talked...

Brian Muskoff is the Director of Product Management for HCL Software DevOps. As a Peter-Drucker-nerd (hey, those are his words! :-), he has extensive experience in supporting teams and building tools that support DevOps culture. Listen to our conversation and find out why Value Stream Management should be on your radar and what can you expect if you’re starting with it. We even touched upon AI in...

John Allspaw is the founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs and one of the people that drove DevOps movement from its beginnings. His (and Paul Hammond’s) famous “10+ deploys per day at Flickr” talk at Velocity conf in 2009 showed us that there is a better way of collaborating and delivering software. Today, John focuses on helping organizations do better in incident management and learn from their own...

Dave Farley is the pioneer of Continuous Delivery. Together with Jez Humble, he wrote a book that paved way for many organizations going through their digital transformation. It’s been 10 years now since the book was first published and a perfect opportunity came up to talk with Dave about the state of Continuous Delivery today. Of course, it was impossible not to touch upon many other topics as w...

Christina Wodtke worked in the product development space in companies such as Zynga, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. She is also a Stanford professor and author of several books, most notably The Team That Managed Itself and Radical Focus. Her experience in developing teams is precious - we talked about empowered teams, OKRs, and the 2nd edition of her bestseller Radical Focus. Subscribe to 0800-DEV...

I’ve heard rants before (mostly from my friend Davor Čengija ) how projects suck and how they result in The Inverse Boy Scout Rule – they leave the product in worse condition than they found it in. But it wasn’t until I heard Mik Kersten ‘s talk on DOES 2020 and read his book that I really understood the reasoning behind it. Mik has a lot of experience in delivering software as well as in leadersh...

Alanna Brown is Sr. Director Marketing at Puppet and a person standing behind the State of DevOps report from the very beginning. I talked with Alanna about key insights from the latest 2020 State of DevOps but we also touched upon the past and how the report came to life, a story that few people are familiar with. Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here . Show notes: This interview is featured i...

Rosalind Radcliffe is Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DevOps on z Systems at IBM. Without any questions, she is the go-to resource for Z systems. In her career, she has been on both sides of the DevOps fence, so tearing that fence down came naturally for her. In this episode, I talked to Rosalind on how Z platform is evolving and supporting modern DevOps way of working. Subscribe to...