Agile Principles —2 min read
Incremental software delivery makes deadlines (almost) meaningless

If you deliver value incrementally, you get scope cutting for free. With or without a deadline.

Continuous Improvement —6 min read
A Look at Atlassian's April 2022 Jira Outage

What lessons can you take from this incident for your own organization?

Quality Engineering —71 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 112: Building Code More Responsibly: A Mental Model Shift

A philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry.

Agile Principles —49 min episode
Tiny DevOps episode #42 Jac Hughes — All about Scrum, when you should (and shouldn't) use it, and how to get started

Agile coach and consultant Jac Hughes joins me to talk about his experience with Scrum, when it does and does not make sense, and how to get started with it, if you've made that decision.

Teams & Culture —2 min read
Finding a vision

A direction is important for every team, and if not provided with one, the team will invent their own.

Learning —1 min read
I know I'm wrong

I just don't know what I'm wrong about. Obviously.

Agile Principles —2 min read
Velocity, capacity, and unplanned work

Velocity usually includes unplanned work, which limits its usefulness for capacity planning and forecasting.

Tech Tools —47 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 111: Infrastructure as code and Amazon CDK

Have you considered the significance of infrastructure as code and its importance in the industry?

Agile Principles —2 min read
Two ways to approach a hard deadline in software

Can incremental software development work under a hard deadline?

Hiring —43 min episode
Tiny DevOps episode #41 Morgan Craft — Is a fractional CTO right for your company?

Morgan Craft is a New York-based former software engineer and CTO, and currently a founder and Fractional CTO. He joins me to discuss the concept of a fractional CTO, why they're growing in popularity, and how to decide whether one is right for you.

Software Delivery —1 min read
How long does it take to deploy?

Don't deploy when you can't stick around to see it through.