The Continuous Delivery Podcast

How do you actually work with AI coding tools in production? From breaking down features into AI-friendly tasks? How to choose between agents vs. manual prompting? How to writing code that LLMs understand better?  Where do spec-driven workflows fit in? 0:00 - Introduction 1:09 - What's the WORST thing you can do when adopting AI? 4:44 - Experimentation vs. Following Old Mental Models 7:06 - W...

The team debates AI development workflows, introduces Stride (a multi-agent requirements system), and discusses whether programming languages and software engineering principles still matter when AI writes most of your code. They explore how product management is transforming as iteration costs plummet and MVPs now take hours instead of weeks. Ancillary AI Development Tools - Tools built on AI mod...

What does the future of software development look like when AI is writing most of the code? We dive deep into how AI is fundamentally changing team dynamics, agile methodologies, and the roles we've held sacred in software engineering. We break down why humans are now the real bottleneck, how to build trust with AI-generated code, and what your development workflow should actually look like r...

Is the Agile Manifesto obsolete in the age of AI? Is a complete rethinking of software development required? From agile overhead  to evolving roles and responsibilities of development teams, we'll unpack it all.  0:00 - Introduction  1:30 - Agile Methodologies and AI  6:00 - Overhead and Productivity 10:30 - Agile Manifesto 15:00 - Testing and Documentation  18:00 - Team Structures and Collab...

NEW POD! Zarar and Csaba discuss examine the findings of the 2024 DevOps Research and Assessment Report (DORA) and the impact of AI on continuous delivery  00:00 - Intro 02:15 - The Big Question: Does AI Speed Up Production Deployments? 04:30 - The DORA Report Shocker: AI's Surprising Impact 07:45 - Where AI Actually Shines: Documentation Over Deployment 11:20 - The Dangerous Trap of AI-Gener...

Kanban guru, Fernando Cuenca joins the podcast alongside Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Csaba Bereczki to discuss Kanban. Hosted by Zarar Siddiqi. 00:00 🚦 Introducing Kanban: Why Your Scrum Teams Are Stuck Learn why traditional sprint methodologies might be holding your team back and how Kanban can unlock better workflow 04:32 🔍 The Kanban Lens: Understanding Your Current Process Discover ho...

Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding 11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load 14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records 18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE...

Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss: - How to Shift Left on Accessibility - Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product - What developers need to known about accessibility - How does shift left work with accessibility - Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products - Are Ontario accessibility guid...

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 so...

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 doe...

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 que...

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  You can follow Fred here: https://twitter.com/fharper YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spo...

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 cent...

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...

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.  YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn...

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 Qu...

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...

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/ Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/ On Apple: https://podcasts.appl...

Csaba, Gino and Zarar talk about how project management systems like Jira create bloat in how we work. And suggest some ideas. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDM RSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODW Twitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi bring back the pod after a long hiatus and we talk about Gino's hopes and dreams of applying continuous delivery to weird cases.  Follow us wherever you find podcasts. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDM RSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODW Twitter:...

Zarar get some coaching about how to handle a situation where he's being asked to plan in advance. Will he fall to the powers of corporate agile bullshit, or die trying not to? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDM RSS Feed: h...

What does shift left mean in terms of technology, processes and agile? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi. Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/continuouspod Join our LinkedIn group: #continuousdelivery #podcast #agile YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIW...

We discuss why transformations fail and whether it's even possible for a transformation to succeed, or whether there's even a thing called a transformation? With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3w...

Happy New Year! The podcast enters its third year, and today the discussion starts with microservices versus modules, and expands to a bunch of other topics including the necessary architectures required for continuous delivery. Here's the article referenced early in the podcast: http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marc...

What must you be able to do before you can say you're doing continuous delivery? Feature flags? Trunk-based development? No QA environments? We tackle the myths and the necessities. With Csaba Bereczki, Gino Marckx, Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Zarar Siddiqi. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJK Spotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcA LinkedIn Grou...