Episode 149: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley

16/12/201816/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig, Tony and honorary Revolutionist Pete Sellars are at YOW! Conference and sit down with Dave Farley, co-author of “Continuous Delivery” and they chat about the following

There are anti-patterns with doing XP at scale, continuous delivery was born from the learnings from that
Continuous delivery is just extending continuous integration to more of the software development practice (and continuous integration requires test driven development)
Continuous delivery works because it is the application of the scientific method to software development
If you work in an iterative, imperative, experimental way and you take continuous learning seriously and take cycle time as a serious measurement you will naturally drive out agile, lean, systems theory and DevOps
YOW! 2016 presentation “The Rationale for Continuous Delivery“
Most common two ways to introduce continuous delivery to your organisation – need to get cover from senior management to make change or…

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Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0

26/04/201726/04/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Jenkins, the popular open source automation server that is used by development teams worldwide for continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, has recently announced the general availability of Blue Ocean 1.0.

Source: Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0

Atlassian Bamboo 5.11 Delivers Continuous Integration At Scale

27/04/201627/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Atlassian, makers of development tools such as JIRA and Confluence, have just released version 5.11 of their continuous delivery tool Bamboo with a host of new features to help teams scale and collaborate. The key feature in this new release is the ability to scale from 100 to 250 elastic build agents.

Source: Atlassian Bamboo 5.11 Delivers Continuous Integration At Scale

Episode 22: New Years Revolutions

12/01/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig, Tony and Renee get together before the Christmas and New Years break to catch up on all things Agile:

Punctuated Equilibriums, Containers, and all things complexity and where Kanban fits in by Yuval Yeret
Warm Gun: Design for Continuous Deployment by Luke Wroblewski
Where is the proof that Agile works? by Scott Ambler
Is the Agile community still ‘uncovering better ways of developing software’ or just debating on whether to implement Scrum or Kanban by Jordan Bortz
Thinker’s 50 list and Forbes post The Industrial Age has finally run out of gas: An interview with Don Tapscott

Quotes:

In TDD, the tests that you automate are not executable specs. They are executable questions based on assumptions. #agile #testing
— Paul Carvalho (@can_agile) December 11, 2011