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In this episode, we talk about a phenomenon that is deeply ingrained in our world today, and that is complexity. And my perfect guest for this conversation is professor Scott Page from University of Michigan whose focus is on researching complex social systems and the potential of collective intelligence. Scott is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. I was blown away by his lectures available under the name Understanding Complexity.In May, Scott will be our guest and keynote speaker at our annual QED conference in Zadar in Croatia. This conversation today is just a glimpse of insights we will share at the conference so jump straight to the QED web page, register and join us to learn more about complexity and how to harness it in daily life.✨ Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, your feedback is gold. ✨Text me what you think.

An accident happened in July that everyone is talking about. This conversation is inspired by the CrowdStrike event. However, it's NOT specifically ABOUT the CrowdStrike event.While everybody was mostly analyzing process dumps and null pointers, Bill Bensing and John Willis took the perspective of operations management and why the software industry is so prone to accidents. We're missing things like operational definitions, blueprints, specifications, and standards.Listen to our conversation where we talk about DevOps automated governance and debunk the myth that the software industry is so creative that no standard can (or should) be imposed.✨ Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, your feedback is gold. ✨Did you know there is a 0800-DEVOPS newsletter? Take a look and subscribe here DevOps automated governance with Bill Bensing and John Willis.Text me what you think.

You know how in every good movie, it takes some time for a plot to develops, and the main character is introduced only later in the movie… We'll that's why it took me 43 episodes of the DevOps podcast to welcome a person that started it all! I talked with Patrick Debois about challenges of introducing Generative AI and how can AI Platform Engineering help.Platform Engineering is the pattern that successful organizations use to efficiently scale the approach, the technology, and ways of working. Yesterday, it was about building abstractions to deploy and manage apps on Kubernetes. Today, it is also about providing access to approved LLM models, RAG mechanisms, vector databases, caching, model versioning, and connectors to legacy data sources, hence AI Platform Engineering.✨ Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, your feedback is gold. ✨Did you know there is a 0800-DEVOPS newsletter? Take a look and subscribe here 0800-DEVOPS #63 – AI Platform Engineering with Patrick Debois.Text me what you think.

Damon Edwards is Senior Director, Product at PagerDuty. I've been aware of Damon's impressive work in the DevOps space since my first Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit where Damon is continuously a member of the program committee. But, in the last couple of years, we've gotten to know each other better and engaged in some super interesting conversations and topics that I wanted to share with you.This time, we talked about the timeless topic of providing value and whether operations, in the broader sense, can be a competitive differentiator for a company. The conversation is as much a history lesson as it is a primer for operating in the future.✨ Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, your feedback is gold. ✨Did you know there is a 0800-DEVOPS newsletter? Take a look and subscribe here 0800-DEVOPS #62 – Operations as competitive advantage with Damon Edwards.Text me what you think.

Sam Newman and Michael Heiß have a long history of helping organizations with technical architectures and organizational dynamics. I talked with them about the future of software architecture, the return of the Monolith, and the importance of play in daily work. This episode is special since we recorded it live at the QED conference!Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #61 - Software architecture and play with Sam Newman and Michael Heiß.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](1:42)Trends in software architecture (27:22)Simplicity and pragmatism (41:46)The importance of play in workplace

Dan Garfield is VP Open Source at Octopus Deploy. I spoke with Dan about KubeCon, GitOps, DORA regulation, the future of Continuous Delivery, AI, and the bright future of Codefresh joining Octopus Deploy.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #60 - GitOps with Dan Garfield.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](2:51)Introduction(5:07)Founding Codefresh(7:30)Maintaining ArgoCD(10:52)About GitOps(17:43)GitOps fueling organizational performance(22:50)GitOps and DORA regulation(27:10)Codefresh joining Octopus Deploy(32:05)State of DevOps in "regular" organizations(36:57)The future of Continuous Delivery and AI(41:16)Dan's recommendations

Kaspar von Grünberg is CEO at Humanitec, one of the companies leading the platform engineering space. He's been involved in platform engineering from the start, practically when the term was invented. A lot is going on recently in this space, particularly around Broadcom acquiring VMWare, and this is just one of the topics Kaspar and I will dig into.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #59 - Platform Engineering with Kaspar von Grünberg.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:45)Introdution(5:08)What is Platform Engineering?(8:39)The curious case of Broadcom and VMWare(14:30)How to escape the lock-in trap(21:54)Typical challenges with Platform Engineering(26:23)Platform Engineering as an organizational transformation(29:00)Setting the right goals and metrics(35:32)The future of Platform Engineering

Peter Guagenti is the President & Chief Marketing Officer of Tabnine, a company behind one of the most popular AI code assistants on the market. I spoke with Peter about AI code assistants, what automatic transmissions and AI have in common, and the philosophical question of future humans forgetting how to code.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #58 - AI code assistants with Peter Guagenti.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:45)Introduction(10:41)The magic behind AI code assistants(14:03)Typical patterns how developers use code assistants(21:15)Can developers rely too much on code assistants?(30:26)Will developer skills deteriorate over time?(34:52)How mature is the technology today?(39:22)The future of code assistants

John Willis is another absolute legend in software delivery and DevOps, an industry veteran working at companies such as Docker and evangelizing good technical practices. He is the co-author of The DevOps Handbook, Beyond The Phoenix Project and Investments Unlimited, and lately, he published an incredible book on Dr. William Edwards Deming called "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge."I thought I knew everything there was to know about Dr. Deming - after all, what is there to know - watch out for seven data points in a row above or beyond the average and do something - and that's it! Except it's not! :)Through his book and by hanging out with him in a weekly book club, John took me on the journey of exploring Deming, and at times, it felt like going through an escape room - just as I thought I understood everything, I'd find a new door and a whole new world. This episode is a glimpse into John's book and our ongoing conversations with the hope that we will also spark interest for Deming in others.

Legends don't need introductions, but I'll write a light one, nevertheless. Gene Kim is the author or co-author of many significant books from DevOps space (The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, to name a few) and the mastermind behind the amazing DevOps Enterprise Summit conference. I spoke with Gene about rewiring our organizations to set them for success.

Dr. Vladyslav Ukis is Head of R&D at Siemens Healthineers with a strong interest in topics of Software Architecture, Cloud Computing, and Digital Transformation, to name a few. Vlad is also a book author; his book “Establishing SRE Foundations” describes his practical experience in starting the SRE practice. Listen to our conversation on introducing the SRE practice to enterprise organizations.

This episode is a special one for me since, for the first time, I have a reappearance in the show – my friend Nathen Harvey, the godfather of the DORA community! We talked about the community, the inaugural DORA Summit, and the freshly published 2023 State of DevOps Report. Nathen touched upon a couple of very interesting insights and shared a ton of advice!An interesting insight is about trunk-based development influencing burnout. Community is working hard to explain this so feel free to join the DORA community trunk-based development discussion that is scheduled for Thursday, December 7 at 6PM UTC. Join the DORA Community of Practice for details and an invitation to the discussion.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #54 - 2023 State of DevOps Report with Nathen Harvey.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:00)Introduction (1:18)DORA community (6:49)2023 State of DevOps Report (28:25)DORA research and service organizations (31:21)Accelerate, second edition (34:36)Follow recommendations

Bryan Finster is a Distinguished Engineer at Defense Unicorns and a relentless searcher for better ways of working – not by following prescribed frameworks but by gaining situational awareness and recognizing specific contextual improvements. We discussed a topic that stirred an otherwise dull summer – McKinsey's report on measuring developer productivity.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #53 - Measuring developer productivity with Bryan Finster.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:00)Introduction(2:40)McKinsey report on measuring developer productivity(9:25)DORA metrics(11:44)Using and abusing DORA metrics(16:14)Abusing metrics(17:40)Improving the organization(23:30)Tips on taking metrics(26:10)Following recommendations

Jennifer Petoff is the director of Google Cloud Platform & Technical Infrastructure Education, and a co-editor of a super popular book "Site Reliability Engineering".I met Jennifer at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2023 conference, where she talked about how each engineer's training needs vary depending on several factors. The talk caught my attention because, let's be honest, who can say that their learning program is so good that they have nothing to learn from Google?People are different and in different stages of their personal and organizational journey, so they also need different kinds of support. Jennifer likes to address these differences with a 2x2 matrix considering industry experience and familiarity with your organization.Sometimes, organizations try to apply a one-size-fits-all approach to all quadrants and wonder why the result is missing. The truth is that each quadrant requires a different learning approach.Listen to my conversation with Dr. J. and learn more about specific techniques for each quadrant.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast platform or Podchaser, and subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #52 - Learning organizations with Jennifer Petoff.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](00:00)Introduction (2:57)What are learning organizations (6:06)Prerequisites for learning organizations (9:07)Getting a management buy-in (13:25)Experience-Familiarity matrix (19:20)Designing a learning program (26:08)Recommendations

Paul Stovell is the CEO of Octopus Deploy and an industry veteran building the tool supporting agile software development. I spoke with Paul about bottlenecks in the software delivery process today, deployment challenges in hybrid environments, and the future of application release automation. As Paul says, deployment time should be the time of happiness and satisfaction, not the time of fear and anxiety.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #51 - Agile software development with Paul Stovell.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:00)Introduction (5:11)About Octopus Deploy (9:36)Challenges in software delivery today (18:18)The complexity of hybrid environments (22:52)About Governance, Risk and Compliance (25:33)The future of application release automation (28:48)AI and deployment management (33:53)Book recommendations

Andre Martin has worked in senior roles in charge of learning dynamics and people development in large organizations such as Nike, Target, and Google. Over the years, he distilled all that experience in a book that will be published in September 2023, and it's called “Wrong Fit, Right Fit.” You might wonder what is a “fit” and what does a wrong one look like? What does the right one look like, and how do we achieve it? Listen to our conversation.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #50 - Wrong Fit, Right Fit with Andre Martin.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:01)Introduction (2:27)Workplaces today(8:06)What is a "fit"? (21:09)Employer Branding (25:18)Can we lose the right fit? (29:03)Keeping the right fit (34:35)Book recommendations

Manuel Pais is co-author of the book Team Topologies and Eduardo da Silva is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner. Both are helping organizations improve their ways of working by applying Team Topologies principles. An important part of Team Topologies are Enabling teams. What are Enabling teams? What kind of people do you need in them? What is the ROI on Enabling teams? How do you start with Enabling teams in an organization? Find out in my conversation with Manuel and Eduardo and note that they're offering a summer discount for all Team Topologies Academy courses.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #49 - Enabling teams with Manuel Pais and Eduardo da Silva.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:01)Introduction (1:05)What are Enabling teams? (3:27)Increasing our chances of Enabling teams improving our organization (12:08)Relationship between Enabling teams and the organization (21:27)Understanding where the organization needs help (29:24)ROI of Enabling teams(39:39)How to sell the idea of Enabling teams

Bill Bensing is one of the authors of the excellent book Investments Unlimited and has so many fresh ideas on the everlasting challenge of Governance. I talked with Bill about Governance as a Service, collaboration between tech and non-tech people, and tools that make it happen. As Bill says – Governance Engineering is not really about technology engineering. It's about “good feelings” engineering!Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #48 - Governance Engineering with Bill Bensing.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:01)Introduction(3:36)Governance in enterprise organizations today(8:18)Tackling the problem of Governance(16:32)Crossing the chasm with enterprise Governance(20:30)Governance Engineering vs. Platform Engineering(23:45)Ubiquitous language for tech and non-tech people(27:53)Advice on how to start with Governance Engineering(34:06)Where to learn more on Governance Engineering

Kelsey Hightower is a pragmatic person, in love with technology but never forgetting that technology should always be in the service of humankind. His rational view on the business-technology interplay and scrutinizing approach to finding value in technology restore sanity in this crazy world often driven solely by technology hype cycles. His ability to dissect business problems and break them down to technology fundamentals never ceases to amaze me. We talked about different perspectives of value, how to approach the ever-changing technical landscape, why it is essential to master technical fundamentals, and much more.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #47 - Talking about value with Kelsey Hightower.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](00:01)Introduction(00:35)The relationship between technology and business in creating value for the customers(04:48)Is technology moving to fast?(08:05)Are we becoming hype driven?(11:38)How does he assess new technology in terms of value?(15:52)Achieving the balance between business and technology(23:52)A career in tech is about the willingness to learn a different tool when the time comes

Clarissa Lucas is IT Audit Director, speaker, and book author. I loved talking to her because, for most of my professional career, I was dealing with the technical aspects of delivering software solutions. And I remember many times I was freaking out because I saw that "we", the technical people, and "they", the non-technical people, were not aligned on how we delivered software. Clarissa comes from that other side of the fence and is working hard to achieve the alignment of delivery and audit. We talked about auditing with agility and tearing down the fence between delivery teams and auditors.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #46 - Auditing with agility with Clarissa Lucas.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](01:16)Introduction(02:36)What is the role of Audit? (06:18)How is audit traditionally performed in enterprise organizations? (12:38)A different way of collaborating with delivery teams (16:58)Modern software development practices vs. traditional audit approach (21:08)CABs and manual checks (28:03)Advice on getting Audit people on-board with process improvements (30:20)Understanding the Audit perspective (walk in their shoes) (33:40)The upcoming book "Beyond Agile Auditing" (37:11)Book recommendations, people to follow

Glenn Wilson is CTO and founder at Dynaminet, book author, and speaker. After reading his book “DevSecOps” and some other security-related material and talking to several people in the industry, I think security is finally the next bottleneck that organizations must solve, especially those in highly-regulated environments. I spoke with Glenn about automating Change Advisory Boards and scaling security skills in an organization.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #45 - Automating and scaling security with Glenn Wilson.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](0:53)Intro(4:00)Is security getting the attention it deserves today?(6:42)Organizations in highly-regulated environments(10:58)Automation as a solution(15:54)Change Advisory Boards(26:27)Segregation of duties(33:55)Scaling security skills in the organization(42:30)Book recommendations, people to follow

Charity Majors is CTO and co-founder at Honeycomb, book author, speaker, and a person unselfishly sharing her views and lessons from both leadership and engineering perspective. I talked to Charity about engineering management and platform engineering, how long you should sharpen your technical saw before thinking about a management role, and whether it is ok for managers to feel useless sometimes :)Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #44 - The Engineering/Management Pendulum with Charity Majors.[Check out podcast chapters if available on your podcast platform or use links below](6:37)"The greatest technologists in the world that I know have all done some time as managers. They all have that skill set. But they are never too far away, never too many years removed from being an IC themselves, because there is wisdom you get from dealing with the technology that you can't get from sitting several layers away."(11:55)"As a manager, you can't make decisions in a vacuum the way you could as an engineer. There is no such thing as a good decision independent of other people because all decisions involve other people."(18:14)"Engineers don't typically go, "I'm done with coding forever. I wanna be a manager ". They want to try things. They want to go back and forth. Most organizations haven't figured out how to incentivize this or how to support people in doing it."(18:55)"You want to optimize not for people becoming more powerful in one role but for them staying curious and engaged."(23:10)"Management is just a bunch of skills. People don't have to become managers in order to learn those skills."(25:35)"People should have some agency in what team they want to go to."(29:55)"Platform Engineering is a form of operationally focused software engineering where your customers are internal instead of external."(31:20)"You give them all these tools so they can own their own code in production, not so you can own it for them."(34:52)"The experience of running software is one that has been consistently devalued and marginalized when it comes to software engineering teams. They typically don't give enough respect to just how difficult and traumatic it can be. There is a sense you get from having run big complex systems for a long time. You can sense where the holes are."

Toma Puljak is software developer at Codeanywhere, a company that builds cloud IDE and brings Infrastructure-as-code principles to developer workspaces. I spoke with Toma about typical use cases for ephemeral workspaces, trends in the industry, how Big Tech companies solve this problem, and how Toma, after his notebook broke down, worked uninterrupted from his cell phone

Nathen Harvey needs little introduction in DevOps community. He is Developer Advocate at Google, co-author of State of DevOps Report and co-author of a great book called “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know”. We talked about insights and surprises from this year's State of DevOps Report. And Nathen shared his view on recent hot takes that “DevOps is dead”

Jonathan Smart is a business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and the author of a bestseller "Sooner Safer Happier". Jon wrote this book based on his vast experience working in enterprises such as Barkleys Bank and Deloitte. I honestly wish I had this book 10 years ago, so many conversations would be much easier back then. Listen to our conversation on delivering Better Value, Sooner, Safer and Happier!Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #41 - Sooner, safer, happier with Jonathan Smart

Fabio Pereira is a speaker, writer, and technologist dedicated to a very noble cause of raising the digital consciousness in the world. We spoke about digital nudging and the power that organizations building digital products have over our lives. Hint: it's more than you think!Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #40 - Digital nudging with Fabio Pereira- Fabio recommends: Predictably Irrational, Hooked, Indistractable, Nudge, Thinking Fast and Slow- Bias Codex is a list of known cognitive biases- Center for Humane Technology- Deceptive design patterns (also known as "dark patterns") are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.

David Anderson currently works at Bazaarvoice as Technical Fellow. Before that, he was CTO leading an organizational transformation at Liberty Mutual aimed at generating more value for the clients by using serverless architectures and better ways of working. David shared his experience and lessons learned in the book "The Value Flywheel Effect" and I got the chance to hear it first-hand.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #39 - The Value Flywheel Effect with David Anderson- Dave's recommendations: Simon Wardley (On industrialization: a technology-driven path to next generation organization), Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais, Nick Tune, Susanne Kaiser, Jonathan Allen (Reaching Cloud Velocity), Gregor Hohpe (The Software Architect Elevator), Adrian Cockroft- The Serverless Edge - content for engineers, architects, tech leaders, students and business leaders who are interested in adopting serverless.

Investments Unlimited is the latest novel by IT Revolution helping organizations radically rethink how they handle audit, compliance, and security for their software systems. I had a great conversation during DevOps Enterprise Summit Europe 2022 with co-authors Tapabrata “Topo” Pal, Michael Edenzon, John Rzeszotarski, Jason Cox, and Bill Bensing. Listen all about governance in DevOps, how you can automate as much manual work as possible, how to make auditors your best friends, how to win auditors and influence engineers, and much more.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- DevOps Automated Governance Reference Architecture

Mish Middelmann is certified leadership and systemic team coach. Mish is a part of Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching network (better known as ORSC) and he spent a great weekend with my group teaching us how to apply ORSC principles to our daily work. I stole some of his time to talk about systemic coaching in tech organizations.And I learned a valuable lesson – never do an interview with a coach – for every question you throw at them, they will respond with two for you

Matt K. Parker is the author of a freshly released book A Radical Enterprise. I had a chance to read it and it sums up beautifully where modern-day enterprises should be heading today if they want to keep pace with others in the future. Listen to the conversation where Matt describes 4 basic imperatives that radically collaborative organizations excel at.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #35 - Radical collaboration with Matt K. Parker– Matt recommends: Corporate Rebels, Thích Nhất Hạnh

Scott Prugh is CTO at CSG International and one of the people I admire a lot for his perseverance and dedication in making a 35-yo large enterprise embrace modern ways of working. He is an active member of the DevOps community and a member of the DevOps Enterprise Summit conference programming committee. We had a great conversation about their DevOps transformation at CSG. Folks at large enterprise organizations – don't miss this!Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #34 - DevOps transformation with Scott Prugh- DevOps Portfolio Management slides by Scott Prugh- Scott recommends: Kill it With Fire by Marianne Bellotti,  John Cutler, Melissa Perri- Scott's weekly DevOps Digest

What if you could make decisions in your development teams based on pure data from your developer tools? I had a great conversation with Maxim Wheatley and Hezheng Yin from Merico about developer productivity and how their DevLake tool supports it.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #33 - How sharpening the saw and being the glue make for a better organization- DevLake on Github

Steve Pereira is helping organizations do better by focusing on value streams. He is a Board Advisor at Value Stream Management Consortium and rumor has it that we can soon expect a book! I talked to Steve about Value Stream Management and Flow Engineering.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #31 - The Revolution in SDLC and Flow Engineering with Steve Pereira- Flow Engineering e-book- A collection of Value stream resources is at your fingertips here

Heidi Helfand is VP of Engineering Growth at Kin Insurance and the author of Dynamic Reteaming, a book that casts a whole new light on forming and growing teams. In these fast-moving times, changing your team formation effectively is the most sought-after organizational superpower. I talked to Heidi about fundamental reteaming patterns and her experience in growing organizations.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:- This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #30 - Dynamic Reteaming with Heidi Helfand.- Book link: Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams 2nd Edition

Nigel Kersten is Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the 2021 State of DevOps Report. I talked to Nigel about the 10th anniversary of the Report, the latest insights, and how come some enterprises are stuck on their DevOps journey. It was also interesting to hear what happens behind the curtains to produce the Report that we all sometimes take for granted. Do. Not. Miss.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #29 - 2021 State of DevOps Report with Nigel Kersten.

Courtney Kissler is CTO at Zulily, an e-commerce company. She has an impressive career in the retail space as former Vice President of Digital Platform Engineering at Nike, and before that, she helped in building digital platforms at Starbucks and Nordstrom. Don't miss our conversation – Courtney is describing her recipe for successful collaboration with consulting companies.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #28 - Collaborating with consulting companies with Courtney KisslerDynamic Reteaming by Heidi Helfand

Working in the field of cloud native and DevOps, I get to talk to many interesting people and one of them is Michael Heiß, Cloud Computing Business Leader at ARS. Michael works in the same area of helping enterprise organizations embrace new ways of working. Listen to our conversation on typical challenges that enterprise organizations face and what can they do to “turn the ship around”.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #27 - Transforming enterprise organizations with Michael Heiss.

Although taken a year ago, this is still one of my favorite interviews. Not to mention it was my first non-written interview – hence the confusion and a questionable mic quality – but talking to Tanya was great!Tanya Janca is a super kind person bringing a security focus to DevOps movement. After working for the government and Microsoft, Tanya is now focused on consulting and education. I talked with Tanya about security in the cloud and how does one go about making teams more sensible to security issues.PS. A lot has changed in one year – Tanya's business evolved and now you can find her at We Hack Purple.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #26 - Product Management and application security with Tanya Janca.

Brian Muskoff is the Director of Product Management for HCL Software DevOps. As a Peter-Drucker-nerd (hey, those are his words! :-), he has extensive experience in supporting teams and building tools that support DevOps culture. Listen to our conversation and find out why Value Stream Management should be on your radar and what can you expect if you're starting with it. We even touched upon AI in the software delivery process – will we ever control software delivery as we're controlling manufacturing processes?Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #25 - Value Stream Management with Brian Muskoff.Value Stream Management Consortium website.HCL Accelerate Value Stream Management platform.

John Allspaw is the founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs and one of the people that drove DevOps movement from its beginnings. His (and Paul Hammond's) famous “10+ deploys per day at Flickr” talk at Velocity conf in 2009 showed us that there is a better way of collaborating and delivering software. Today, John focuses on helping organizations do better in incident management and learn from their own mistakes. I talked with John about incident management, learning organizations, and how the world has changed since 2009.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #17 - John Allspaw, resilience engineering and DOES 2020 conference.The community sharing stories and learning from incidents.

Dave Farley is the pioneer of Continuous Delivery. Together with Jez Humble, he wrote a book that paved way for many organizations going through their digital transformation. It's been 10 years now since the book was first published and a perfect opportunity came up to talk with Dave about the state of Continuous Delivery today. Of course, it was impossible not to touch upon many other topics as well. It was a real pleasure to discuss how technology can help business today.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #19 - Dave Farley and The state of Continuous Delivery.

Christina Wodtke worked in the product development space in companies such as Zynga, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. She is also a Stanford professor and author of several books, most notably The Team That Managed Itself and Radical Focus. Her experience in developing teams is precious - we talked about empowered teams, OKRs, and the 2nd edition of her bestseller Radical Focus.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #24 - Empowered teams with Christina Wodtke.The 2nd edition of Radical Focus went public on April 20th, 2021

I've heard rants before (mostly from my friend Davor Čengija) how projects suck and how they result in The Inverse Boy Scout Rule – they leave the product in worse condition than they found it in.But it wasn't until I heard Mik Kersten‘s talk on DOES 2020 and read his book that I really understood the reasoning behind it. Mik has a lot of experience in delivering software as well as in leadership positions. Precisely this experience made him realize that there's something wrong with the way we deliver software. Local optimizations and the lack of end-to-end value stream visibility caused many successful organizations to go under. Pair that with a traditional (but still present) mindset that IT is a cost center, and you are truly set for a disaster in today's economy.I spoke with Mik about problems in software delivery today and the disconnect between the Business and the IT that many organizations experience.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #18 - Mik Kersten, Project to Product and a handful of good virtual conferences.

Alanna Brown is Sr. Director Marketing at Puppet and a person standing behind the State of DevOps report from the very beginning. I talked with Alanna about key insights from the latest 2020 State of DevOps but we also touched upon the past and how the report came to life, a story that few people are familiar with.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #20 - 2020 State of DevOps Report.2020 State of DevOps is available here.

Rosalind Radcliffe is Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DevOps on z Systems at IBM. Without any questions, she is the go-to resource for Z systems. In her career, she has been on both sides of the DevOps fence, so tearing that fence down came naturally for her. In this episode, I talked to Rosalind on how Z platform is evolving and supporting modern DevOps way of working.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 0800-DEVOPS #23 – Rosalind Radcliffe, DevOps on Z and measuring productivity with SPACE framework.