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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.

    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
    DevOps Patterns for Private Equity with Dave Mangot

    DevOps Patterns for Private Equity with Dave Mangot

    Dave Mangot returns to discuss his new book "DevOps Patterns for Private Equity". Don't let the title fool you, this is best introduction to DevOps and many related software delivery topics. Buy this book for anyone in leadership.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 Enter the FREE March 2024 book giveaway🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence📘 DevOps Patterns for Private Equity (Dave's Book)☕️ Small Batches #37: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team with Dave Mangot
    Chapters
    (00:00) - Intro
    (00:48) - FREE Giveaway
    (01:38) - Dave's Introduction
    (02:28) - Why this book?
    (05:14) - How Private Equity wins with Software Delivery
    (08:13) - Communicating these ideas
    (11:43) - A common entry point?
    (16:21) - Quaterly Roadmaps?
    (21:48) - Drift into Kanban
    (31:54) - On Monitoring & Operations
    (39:59) - Wrap Up


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    • 43 min
    Blue-Yellow-Black Visual Management

    Blue-Yellow-Black Visual Management

    Adam presents visual management using simple blue, yellow, and black color grading. This is an essential episode.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🎁 March 2024 Giveaway instructions🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence📘 Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn (Katie's Book)☕️ Small Batches #102: Chain of Learning with Katie Anderson🥋 The Toyota Way on Software KaizenChapters
    (00:00) - Blue, Yellow, Black
    (00:22) - Background
    (01:20) - March Giveaway
    (01:55) - Origin Story
    (05:49) - Blue-Yellow-Black In Ops Reviews
    (08:11) - Blue-Yellow-Black In 1:1s
    (11:55) - Blue-Yellow-Black In A3s
    (14:40) - Wrap-up
    (15:45) - Farewell Alex
    (16:14) - Outro


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    Understanding Production Operations

    Understanding Production Operations

    Adam presents a series of questions to understand production operations, plus a method to practice: MMIVM. That's Model-Measure-Instrument-Visualize-Monitor.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence🎁 Enter the February 2024 Book Giveaway!☕️ Small Batches #90: As Measured By☕️ Small Batches #88: Golden SignalsChapters
    (00:00) - Understanding Production Operations
    (00:23) - You Build it, You Run it
    (01:27) - Feburary Giveaway
    (01:59) - To What Aim? By What Method?
    (02:19) - Question One
    (02:45) - Question Two
    (03:30) - Question Three
    (04:13) - Question Four
    (05:24) - Question Five
    (06:14) - The Exercise
    (06:24) - Model
    (06:45) - Measure
    (07:11) - Instrument
    (07:40) - Visualize
    (08:28) - Monitor
    (09:03) - Recap
    (10:31) - Outro
     

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    • 11 min
    Chain of Learning with Katie Anderson

    Chain of Learning with Katie Anderson

    Adam's welcomes Katie Anderson to the show to discuss her book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn, lean thinking, and the powerful growth mindset.
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    🚀 New listener? Start with the introduction.🧭 Get your FREE Guide to software delivery excellence📘 Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn (Katie's Book)🎧 Chain of Learning (Katie's Podcast)☕️ Small Batches #77: Managing to Learn
    Chapters
    (00:00) - Chain of Learning with Katie Anderson
    (00:23) - Today's Episode
    (01:13) - Feburary Giveaway!
    (01:40) - Katie's Background
    (03:06) - Katie's Origin Story
    (13:59) - The Toyota Boat?
    (25:47) - Katie's Japan Study Trips
    (29:26) - The Impact of Culture
    (36:31) - Growth Mindset
    (49:32) - Katie & Adam's self Kaizen
    (54:59) - Connect with Katie
    (56:11) - Outro
     

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    • 57 min

Customer Reviews

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8 Ratings

8 Ratings

oded hijah ,

Small batches of awesome

I learned a lot of concepts that could use at work in the very first episode. The host is great! Highly recommended

Madeleine326 ,

Great podcast

Learn a ton each listen

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