

The Continuous Delivery Podcast
Zarar Siddiqi
A podcast about continuously delivering valuable software to production.
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Jul 15, 2024 • 36min
How to Shift Left on Security
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 question from a developer and management point of view.YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Jul 1, 2024 • 39min
Getting into GitOps with Fred Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, kubefirst.io
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/fharperYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Jun 17, 2024 • 40min
Focus to Scale: Amplifying XP Practices with Elisabeth Hendrickson
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 centricity while scaling- How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Project Manager patterns- Simpler Machines - a newsletter recommendation from Elisabeth: https://simplermachines.gumroad.com/Buy the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Explore-Increase-Confidence-Exploratory-Testing/dp/1937785025YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Jun 10, 2024 • 40min
Value Stream Mapping is Not Enough with Steve Pereira
Steve Pereira, an author focused on value stream mapping and practical actions, shares insights from his new book. He discusses transforming value stream maps into actionable steps for teams, the importance of ownership in self-organizing teams, and how capability mapping reveals critical resources. The conversation highlights the role of early mapping in understanding value chains and the benefits of game-based learning for Scrum Masters. Pereira emphasizes effective collaboration to drive measurable outcomes in continuous delivery practices.

Jun 3, 2024 • 29min
Nightmare on Scrum Street: Scrum Anti-Patterns
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/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

May 28, 2024 • 1h 15min
Engineering Insights: From Meta to Microservices with Ian Gartley
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 Profiles02:15: What makes a good intermediate developer hiring interview question? / MVP Architectures11:30 - Challenges with MicroServices / Convenience of Sidecars23:30 - Orchestration Layers, GraphQL and Distributed Queries32:00: Why does it take 10 different engineers to make one change?49:15: Functional programming languages encouraging better testing patterns / mocking private functions / creator/mutator pattern61:03: Whose job is it to write requirements?YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

May 16, 2024 • 35min
Get the Lowdown on these Kanban Courses Floating Around
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 of Kanban concepts- Good reads about how to improve flow- Which framework to use based on team maturity- Tie in to XP and Continuous DeliveryYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

May 15, 2024 • 38min
Ep. 85: Change Management is Not Linear - Jason Little talks Six Big Ideas
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.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-continuous-delivery-podcast/id1499579910On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4FV9NFksNm30PdrnqwdQp0YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Feb 13, 2024 • 20min
Ep. 84: How Jira ruined agile
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/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Feb 6, 2024 • 23min
Ep. 83: You applied continuous delivery to WHAT?
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/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju


