Software Delivery in Small Batches

This is the first episode of a few episodes on Dr. Deming's works. Adam recaps Dr. Deming's "System of Profound Knowledge" principle: understanding variation. There are two types of variation: common and special causes. Misunderstanding the type of variation leads to wasted effort and lost resources. Understanding variation helps optimize system performance. The Deming Rabbit Hole: ☕️ Small Batch...

Adam welcomes Steve Spear to the show to discuss his 2009 book "The High-Velocity Edge." This is the last episode in the series. Adam and Steve reflect on the fundamental thesis in the book: apply the scientific method everywhere to everything all the time. This leads to a conversation on how the ideas directly apply to software, deployment pipelines, the ideal flow, and applying the coaching and...

My closing thoughts on the book before the next episode featuring my conversation with Steven Spear. Part nine of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa ☕️ Part Three : The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program ☕️ Part Four : Kanban &amp...

This episode demonstrates the third capability, knowledge sharing, and the fourth, developing skills in others, through Toyota's "jishuken" exercise. It's a process for improving problem-solving processes. Part eight of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities...

The episode covers applying a disciplined problem-solving method to achieve the second capability. Part seven of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa ☕️ Part Three : The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program ☕️ Part Four : Kanban &...

This episode completes the discussion on the first capability: system design and operation by identifying the four levels of system design and their associated checks. Part six of a ten-part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa ☕️ Part Three : The Four Cap...

This episode continues discussing system design and operations with a focus on using "jidoka" to build in quality control into systems. Part five of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa ☕️ Part Three : The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor...

Part four of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edg e by Steven Spear. This episode introduces the two pillars of the first capability: design systems to reveal problems. The first pillar is Taiichi Ohno's "kanban", or pull-based, philosophy on system design. The second pillar is Sakichi Toyoda's "jidoka", or self-regulation, philosophy to identify problems when they happen. The...

This episode tells how Admiral Hyman Rickover demonstrated the four capabilities while creating the US Navy's nuclear reactor (or NR) program. Part three of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Helocity Edge by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa ☕️ Part Three : The Four Capabilities in the nuclear...

This episode demonstrates the four capabilities through Alcoa's commitment to changing its safety culture. Part two of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa  (👈🏻 you are here) ☕️ Part Three : The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program...

Part one of a nine-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear.  This episode demonstrates how complex systems fail through the story of Mrs. Grant and the four capabilities to overcome such failures. The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches ☕️ Part One : Introduction  (👈🏻 you are here) ☕️ Part Two : The Four Capabilities at Alcoa ☕️ Part Three : The Four Capabilities i...

Enjoy this meme-ready episode with Bryan Finster. Bryan Finster leads a DevOps dojo at a Fortune 50 enterprise where he helps teams deliver to production daily. This episode continues recurring discussion topics on the post: integrated vs isolated development environments, software architecture and team owner, and their relationship to delivering to production daily.  Check out episodes #15 (for p...

Adam welcomes Dave Mangot to the show for a book discussion. The classic leadership and management book is "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team". Adam & Dave discuss the dysfunctions through a lens of software delivery, DevOps, and SRE. Dave Mangot's Links The Goal 30th Anniversary Edition Just Culture: Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition The Three Principles Und...

Level up your soft skills with this episode on "Agile Conversations". The episode begins with a short introduction to the book then dives into the content with the authors.  Topics include: "TDD for People", The four R's, The trust conversation, the fear conversation, the why conversation, the commitment conversation, and the accountability conversation. Adam Hawkins' Links Troubleshooting Agile P...

Adam welcomes Carmen de Ardo to the show. Carmen is a senior VSM strategist at TaskTop and author of numerous books on value streams, leaderships, DevOps, and product transformation. This episode is a response to a listener request for an episode on value streams. So we start from the beginning of "what is a value stream" and work up towards toward value stream mapping, the flow framework, and pea...

Adam welcomes Matthew Skelton to the show. Matthew is co-author of the book "Team Topologies" and a DevOps Enterprise Summit speaker. This episode builds on the previous podcast introducing the team types and interaction models. Adam and Matthew discuss the first principles in Team Topologies, building internal platform products, and the impact on software and team architecture.  Adam's Links Team...

Adam welcomes Markus Schirp to the show. Markus is an independent software professional. He calls himself a "dynamic language exorcist." He's also the man behind the Mutant mutation project for Ruby. Adam and Markus discuss the first principles for software development, laddering up to higher-level abstractions, and how tooling helps developers. Markus Schirp's Links My Github Mutant My Talks Adam...

Adam welcomes Sebastian Dahlgren to the show. Sebastian is now the CTO at Saltside. Sebastian joined Saltside just after the rewrite completed and continues to work there today. Adam & Sebastian worked closely together to grow the team in Bangalore until Adam left Saltside in 2017. Adam & Sebastian discuss if the rewrite delivered on its promise, what worked, what didn't work, and if those...

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021. Adam's Links Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021. Adam Hawkin's Links Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021. Adam's Links Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021. Adam's Links Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam worked at Saltside from 2014-2018. These episode tell the story for how events created a ground up, big-bang rewrite from 2014 through 2015. This is a five part series. Small Batches will back back in 2021. Adam's Links Shipping Code at Saltside (DevOps Days India 2016; a day in the life post-rewrite) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Adam welcomes Alex Hidalgo to the show. Alex is the Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives. Adam & Alex discuss the ins-and-outs of SLOs. It's assumed you are already familiar with the basic concepts of SLIs & SLOs so please listen to the previous episode (linked below) before listening to this conversation.  Some of the take-aways:...

Adam welcomes Keith Pitt to the show. Keith Pitt is the founder as CTO of Buildkite.com. Buildkite is CI/CD platform. Adam invited Keith on the show to discuss software delivery inside a company building software delivery tools. It turns out that Buildkite has a fearless continuous deployment pipeline. So listeners, if you need a software delivery North Star then just listen to Keith. It's all her...