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The Continuous Delivery Podcast

Zarar Siddiqi

A podcast about continuously delivering valuable software to production.

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43:28

Has AI made the Agile Manifesto obsolete?

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2025/10/31

Is the Agile Manifesto obsolete in the age of AI? Is a complete rethinking of software development required? From agile overhead to evolving roles and responsibilities of development teams, we'll unpack it all. 0:00 - Introduction 1:30 - Agile Methodologies and AI 6:00 - Overhead and Productivity 10:30 - Agile Manifesto 15:00 - Testing and Documentation 18:00 - Team Structures and Collaboration 22:00 - Product Management and Customer Interaction 30:0...

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2025/07/31

NEW POD! Zarar and Csaba discuss examine the findings of the 2024 DevOps Research and Assessment Report (DORA) and the impact of AI on continuous delivery 00:00 - Intro 02:15 - The Big Question: Does AI Speed Up Production Deployments? 04:30 - The DORA Report Shocker: AI's Surprising Impact 07:45 - Where AI Actually Shines: Documentation Over Deployment 11:20 - The Dangerous Trap of AI-Generated Tests 15:10 - Smart AI Usage: Boilerplate vs. Business Logic 18:00 - Junior Developers in Cr...

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52:30

Getting Kanban Right, with Fernando Cuenca

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2025/02/03

Kanban guru, Fernando Cuenca joins the podcast alongside Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Csaba Bereczki to discuss Kanban. Hosted by Zarar Siddiqi. 00:00 🚦 Introducing Kanban: Why Your Scrum Teams Are Stuck Learn why traditional sprint methodologies might be holding your team back and how Kanban can unlock better workflow 04:32 🔍 The Kanban Lens: Understanding Your Current Process Discover how Kanban isn't about switching processes, but about gaining insights into your existing workflow and

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63:20

Architecting for Growth, with Brad Smith

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2024/11/01

Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss:00:00 Intro00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE27:10 Scaling startup infrastructure efficiently41:30 Zarar’s crazy story about his old boss 42:53 Viability...

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37:54

Shifting Left on Accessibility, with Patrick Dunphy

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2024/10/22

Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss:- How to Shift Left on Accessibility- Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product- What developers need to known about accessibility- How does shift left work with accessibility- Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products- Are Ontario accessibility guidelines too onerous?- Big Tech / operating systems handing accessibilities, which companies are getting ...

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49:31

Managing Software Complexity with John Ousterhout

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2024/09/16

John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-designTopics include:- What does software complexity look like?- How do we identify complexity before it develops?- The importance of continuous refactoring- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford- What John thinks of agile- Balancing ...

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32:14

Empowered Developers Write Clean Code, Tom Howlett,...

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2024/08/12

Tom Howlett, Head of Product Management at Sonar is our guest today. Sonar is the leader in helping engineers write clean code through continuous feedback during the development process, and is trusted by millions of developers worldwide.We talk about:- The idea of "Start Left" and how it ties into "Shift Left"- Gen AI in developer workflows and how it promotes TDD- How does Sonar empower development teams? What's the role of the PM?- What constitutes a bad test?- Will static code analysis ev...

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36:03

How to Shift Left on Security

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2024/07/15

Max Tykhenko, Security Architect from IBM joins the podcast to talk about:What are the attack surfaces that most people don't think about enough? How has the security landscape changed over the last few years in terms of threat detection. How vulnerable are we than how we were 10 years ago? We all know what shift left generally means, but what does it mean for security? Analyzing this question from a developer and management point of view.YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple P...

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38:35

Getting into GitOps with Fred Harper, Principal...

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2024/07/01

Frederic Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, from kubefirst.io joins the podcast to dive into GitOps. We discuss:- What is GitOps?- How GitOps can help orgs manage their infrastructure- How to get started- Secrets management- Monorepos You can follow Fred here: https://twitter.com/fharperYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://b...

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39:57

Focus to Scale: Amplifying XP Practices with...

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2024/06/17

Elisabeth Hendrickson, author of the hugely impactful book, Explore It! joins the podcast to talk- How the Explore It! text came to be- What is it about testing that tends to make it a gate rather than part of development- How we can scale XP practices- Importance of focus and how XP helps achieve it. - How to deal with resistance when introducing XP practices - How to maintain customer centricity while scaling- How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Proje...

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39:52

Value Stream Mapping is Not Enough with Steve Pereira

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2024/06/10

Steve Pereira, author of "Flow Engineering: From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action", joins the podcast to talk about how to convert your glorious Value Stream Map into actual actions which actual people can actually do to see actual results in the actual world.About the bookhttps://itrevolution.com/product/flow-engineering/Buy the bookhttps://www.amazon.ca/Value-Stream-Clarity-Steve-Pereira/dp/1950508455YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podc...

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28:52

Nightmare on Scrum Street: Scrum Anti-Patterns

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2024/06/03

Jeff "Chezzy" Morgan, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi address a listener question about Scrum anti-patterns. Halfway through talking about this topic we realized that this episode could easily be three hours long, but we resisted yet managed to unmask a few of them. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

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74:44

Engineering Insights: From Meta to Microservices with...

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2024/05/28

Ian Gartley, Principal Engineer from Varo Bank, formerly of Meta and RBC, joins the podcast. Topics below, timestamps are approximate:00:00 - Putting “Ex-Meta” on LinkedIn Profiles02:15: What makes a good intermediate developer hiring interview question? / MVP Architectures11:30 - Challenges with MicroServices / Convenience of Sidecars23:30 - Orchestration Layers, GraphQL and Distributed Queries32:00: Why does it take 10 different engineers to make one change?49:15: Function...

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34:40

Get the Lowdown on these Kanban Courses Floating Around

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2024/05/16

Zarar Siddiqi is joined by Paul Henman (https://torontoagilecoach.ca/) to talk about:- Recent Kanban Courses he's taken and what's taught there - Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, Kanban System Improvement, and what they can teach you- Applying Kanban Concepts to Scrum, e.g., WIP Limit, Small Batch Sizes etc.- What Paul might do differently now that he's more aware of Kanban concepts- Good reads about how to improve flow- Which framework to use based on team maturity- Tie in to ...

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37:51

Ep. 85: Change Management is Not Linear - Jason...

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2024/05/15

Jason Little talks his new book about change management with Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczki.Buy it here: https://www.amazon.ca/Six-Big-Ideas-Adaptive-Organizations/dp/B0D3QV5FYQ/Jason Little and Ken Richard's site: https://leanchange.org/Jason's site:https://www.agilecoach.ca/Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12399589/On Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-continuous-delivery-podcast/id1499579910On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4FV9NF...

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19:59

Ep. 84: How Jira ruined agile

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2024/02/13

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22:44

Ep. 83: You applied continuous delivery to WHAT?

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2024/02/06

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20:03

Ep. 82: I want the next 40 sprints planned in advance

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2023/09/05

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Ep 81: What does Shift Left mean?

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2023/05/28

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18:03

Ep. 80: The Liquid Death of Failed Transformations

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2023/02/03

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