The Software Delivery Notebook

The Software Delivery Notebook

Presented by Google's NotebookLM hosts, The Software Delivery Notebook (SDN) takes a dive into white papers and other industry content to provide a 20 minute summary.

Episodios

  1. The hard truth about Platform Engineering

    10 OCT

    The hard truth about Platform Engineering

    Based on the 2025 Platform Engineering Pulse report from Octopus, we look at what’s happening in practice. Within the Platform Engineering (PE) community we talk about reducing developer burnout, taking a product not project approach to platforms, and making platforms optional. The reality is that organizations care more about standardization and efficiency and they want […]

    34 min
  2. DORA’s State of AI-Assisted Software Development report

    25 SEP

    DORA’s State of AI-Assisted Software Development report

    DORA has published their latest report and it goes deep into AI-Assisted Software development. It covers the extent of adoption, how it moves the needle on outcomes, and (crucially) what you need in place if you want to succeed. As well as thoughtful and thorough analysis on software delivery with AI assistance, the report also […]

    32 min
  3. Achieving Continuous Delivery with TPF

    10 SEP

    Achieving Continuous Delivery with TPF

    This episodes look at the white paper Achieving Continuous Delivery With TPF by Bob Walker at Octopus Deploy. TPF is a set of three practices that can solve many CI/CD pipeline problems. Find out the core problems and how TPF helps, with some case studies that might hit close to home. TPF is much simpler, […]

    21 min
  4. Westrum’s study of information flow

    28 AGO

    Westrum’s study of information flow

    Ron Westrum is famous for his classification of organizational culture, but he’s also done great work on hidden events, and information flow. This episode looks at Westrum’s study of information flow and it contains highly relevant lessons for all organizations, not just safety-critical industries. When information fails to flow, it stops the “safe and proper […]

    16 min
  5. Unpacking Weinberg’s laws of consulting

    21 AGO

    Unpacking Weinberg’s laws of consulting

    Based on a list of laws, rules, and principles that span Gerald M. Weinberg’s two books on The Secrets of Consulting. These laws are a helpful and amusing way to get into the consultant mindset. They include The First Law of Consulting: In spite of what your client may tell you, there’s always aproblem. And […]

    19 min
  6. Compliance through Continuous Delivery

    15 AGO

    Compliance through Continuous Delivery

    Based on the financial industry survey by Octopus and their Compliance through Continuous Delivery report, this episode shows how recent regulations are increasing the pressure for regulated companies to improve their software delivery performance. You can’t meet the requirements without having a path to production that applies to all changes, whether they are routine features […]

    18 min
  7. Why software projects fail

    8 AGO

    Why software projects fail

    Let’s look at a classic software projects paper published in The Journal of Defense Software Engineering in March 2005. It discusses why software projects fail so often. Some of the concepts discussed are old school and the criteria for success aren’t what we’d use today, but it’s a fascinating snapshot of the problems that were […]

    19 min
  8. Dave Farley’s CD report

    31 JUL

    Dave Farley’s CD report

    Dave Farley knows a thing or two about Continuous Delivery (CD), so his State of Continuous Delivery in 2025 report based on assessments of consultancy customers is a great insight into how CD is being practiced. Find out what people are practicing, what they are missing, and why we need to overcome the technical skills […]

    15 min
  9. Multi-tasking: Executive control in task switching

    28 JUL

    Multi-tasking: Executive control in task switching

    A big myth of business is that multi-taskers are the go-getters who deliver the most work. The research, though, shows that these multi-taskers deliver work slowly and have problems with quality and accuracy. In fact, the more someone rates their multi-tasking skills, the worse they perform. Find out how researchers tested these ideas to discover […]

    16 min
  10. AI coding assistants and perceptions of productivity

    21 JUL

    AI coding assistants and perceptions of productivity

    A very deep exploration, conducted by METR with 16 open-source developers and 246 real issues, has looked at perceptions and reality of productivity when using AI coding assistants. Titled Measuring the impact of early-2025 AI on experienced open-source developer productivity, the report tackles something we’ve known for a while, our perception of productivity is no […]

    18 min
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Presented by Google's NotebookLM hosts, The Software Delivery Notebook (SDN) takes a dive into white papers and other industry content to provide a 20 minute summary.

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    2024 - 2025
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