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Adam Hawkins presents the theory and practices behind software delivery excellence. Topics include DevOps, lean, software architecture, continuous delivery, and interviews with industry leaders.

Software Delivery in Small Batches Adam Hawkins

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Adam Hawkins presents the theory and practices behind software delivery excellence. Topics include DevOps, lean, software architecture, continuous delivery, and interviews with industry leaders.

    Hexagonal Architecture

    Hexagonal Architecture

    Adam describes using Hexagonal Architecture, also known as Ports and Adapters, for software delivery excellence.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 Enter the FREE giveaway for a copy of "Modern Software Engineering"🧭 Get the Small Batches Way guide to software delivery excellence 🥋 Software Kaizen: My One-on-One System for Engineering Leadership📘 Hexagonal Architecture by Alistair Cockburn☕️ Small Batches #17 with Dave FarleyChapters
    (00:00) - Hexagonal Architecture
    (00:23) - Reflections on Ruby and Rails
    (01:41) - What is Hexagonal Architecture?
    (02:45) - The Repository Pattern
    (04:32) - Dependency Injection
    (06:43) - Thinking in Pipelines
    (08:03) - Development Environments
    (09:09) - Outro


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    • 10 min
    Flow Engineering with Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

    Flow Engineering with Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

    Adam welcomes Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis to discuss their new book, Flow Engineering. They discuss the book's origin story and the use of cybernetics to drive effective action.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 Enter the FREE giveaway for a copy of "Modern Software Engineering"🧭 Get the Small Batches Way guide to software delivery excellence 📘 Buy Flow Engineering: from value stream mapping to effective action🧠 Join the Flow Collective🥋 Software Kaizen: My One-on-One System for Engineering LeadershipChapters
    (00:00) - Flow Engineering
    (00:23) - Intro
    (00:59) - Free June Giveaway
    (01:38) - Andrew's Intro
    (02:38) - Steve's Intro
    (03:46) - Book's Origin Story
    (06:49) - Adam's Thoughts on the Book
    (13:03) - The Five Maps
    (19:16) - Value, Clarity Flow
    (23:46) - What is Essential?
    (27:12) - Cybernetics & Effective Action
    (39:51) - The Principles & Visual Management
    (53:21) - Wrap up
    (56:53) - Outro


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    • 57 min
    T1 and T2 Signals

    T1 and T2 Signals

    Adam presents the mental model behind T1 and T2 signals, a necessary lexicon for understanding production operations.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 Enter the FREE giveaway for a copy of "Flow Engineering"🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence☕️ Small Batches #103 - Understanding Production Operations (The MMIVM episode)☕️ Small Batches #90 - As Measured By☕️ Small Batches #88 - Golden Signals☕️ Small Batches #26 - SLOs with Alex Hidalgo (Google SRE and author of the SLO book)🥋 Software Kaizen: My One-on-One System for Engineering LeadershipChapters
    (00:00) - T1 & T2 Signals
    (00:23) - Can you answer this question?
    (01:27) - Flow Engineering Giveaway
    (02:30) - Tier 1 & Tier 1 Signals
    (03:49) - Example: Datadog Spending
    (06:13) - Example: a Web Service
    (08:23) - Example: Video Transcription
    (09:26) - PROTIP One
    (09:57) - PROTIP Two
    (10:27) - PROTIP Three
    (11:07) - PROTIP Four
    (11:43) - PROTIP Five
    (12:38) - PROTIP 6
    (13:22) - PROTIP Seven
    (14:24) - Study Guide Announcement
    (15:07) - Announcing more Paid Perks
    (17:25) - Outro


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    • 17 min
    Rules of Flow

    Rules of Flow

    Adam answers a listener's request of advice on succeeding in high-level company or project environments with seven tips.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 Enter the FREE giveaway for a copy of "Flow Engineering"🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence📘 Buy "Goldratt's Rules of Flow"📘 Buy "Playing to Win" (my favorite book on strategy)☕️ Small Batches #99: Wiring the Winning Organization☕️ Small Batches #82: Leadership is LanguageChapters
    (00:00) - Rules of Flow
    (00:23) - Listener Request
    (00:48) - May Giveaway: Flow Engineering
    (01:30) - Rules of Flow
    (04:15) - Goldratt's Rule of Flow
    (04:52) - Tip One: Control WIP
    (05:16) - Tip Two: Full-Kits
    (06:02) - Tip Three: Set a Cadence
    (06:51) - Tip Four: Right-Size
    (07:42) - Tip Five: Buffers
    (08:39) - Tip Six: Visual Management
    (10:11) - Tip Seven: Language
    (10:49) - Bonus Tip: Information Diet
    (11:12) - Outro


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    • 11 min
    Skill Zero: Test Driven Development

    Skill Zero: Test Driven Development

    Adam presents TDD as skill zero, the one that unlocks all the others.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 April 2024 Giveaway instructions🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence☕️ Small Batches #65: Systems Thinking☕️ Dave Farley on Small Batches📘 Tidy First? by Kent BeckChapters
    (00:00) - Skill Zero: Test Driven Development
    (00:25) - Intro
    (01:32) - Free April Giveaway
    (02:27) - Skill Zero
    (04:06) - Learning from Management
    (05:11) - TDD in Teams
    (06:03) - Systems Thinking
    (06:39) - Balancing Feedback Loops
    (08:00) - Reinforcing Feedback Loops
    (09:13) - Batch-Size Controls
    (13:04) - Outro


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    • 13 min
    On Ops Reviews

    On Ops Reviews

    Adam presents a catch-all episode on ops reviews, visual management, call-to-actions, and SLOs.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 April 2024 Giveaway instructions🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence☕️ Small Batches #104: Blue-Yellow-Black Visual Management☕️ Small Batches #26: Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo☕️ Small Batches #103: Understanding Production Operations🥋 How to Find your Initial SLOs on Software KaizenChapters
    (00:00) - Intro
    (00:35) - This Month's Free Giveaway!
    (01:17) - On Ops Reviews
    (09:13) - Outro


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    • 9 min

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