Software Delivery —1 min read
Why would you ever need to deploy new features multiple times per day?

That's not why we do CD. When using CD, large features are typically behind a feature flag.

Teams & Culture —1 min read
How do you get people to see the light?

Imagine a world where it was easy to convince everyone that your new insight was great. We'd never get anything done.

Teams & Culture —68 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 121: Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management InfrastructureDave Mangot

Brian Scanlan explains how Intercom increases efficiency of on-call engineers and reduces the disruptive nature of the job.

Teams & Culture —1 min read
Ask them

What's best for my team? Ask them.

Software Delivery —2 min read
Large batches obscure your bottlenecks

Are things moving slowly, but you don't know why? Reduce your batch size.

Agile Principles —1 min read
What to do with bottlenecks

What creative ways can you find to destroy bottlenecks?

Software Delivery —52 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 120: DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Metrics with Dave Mangot

Dave Mangot joins Adventures in DevOps to share how he leverages DORA metrics to improve technology organizations.

Hiring —2 min read
Don't hire until you've identified your actual bottleneck

There many ways to identify bottlenecks, some more formal than others. Here are a few simple patterns to watch for.

Hiring —2 min read
New hires means more overhead

Lines of communication go up as team size increases, but that's not all. Consider merge conflicts.

Hiring —2 min read
Why hiring more devs can hurt, instead of help

"Ramp up" time means we always pay an onboarding "tax" when adding a team member, which hurts productivity before it helps it.

Software Delivery —2 min read
Can we use a staging environment with trunk-based development?

Push to your staging branch as needed, but don't make it a mandatory step toward production.