#AGILE19 / Entrega Continua / Tomándonos la agilidad en serio

Muchas gracias a la organización de  #AGILE19

Hoy he tenido la gran suerte de poder hablar de la Entrega Continua en la jornada Agile19. Muchas gracias a los organizadores por la invitación y por esta jornada tan interesante.

Aquí van la presentación que he usado y dónde intento explicar como la Entrega Continua es requisito imprescindible para la subsistencia en la Era del Software...

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Good talks/podcasts (May 2019 II)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently:

• facebook management with jocelyn goldfein Software Engineering Daily podcast. A lot of insight into software development macroeconomics.
• Speeding Up Innovation Adrian Cockcroft. Interesting talk about how to use the cloud and how it enables innovation. 
• Applying the Serverless Mindset to Any Tech Stack  Ben Kehoe. Good talk about how serverless enables a new way of thinking.
• Reliability Engineering: One of the Best Jobs in Software Engineering Mary Poppendieck. Good introduction to reliability engineering and SRE.
• Big Transitions in Small Steps Kent Beck. Very deep ideas about how to make any kind of huge technical change using small and incremental changes. This part of the core of agile... Vertical slicing to make changes in small (low risk) steps.

Good talks/podcasts (May 2019 I)

 

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently:

• Parallelizing computation with dask TalkPython podcast. Good episode if you are interested in different solutions to improve the performance of algorithms for Data Science. For python native shops, Dask seems a very good solution with a low entry barrier for Data Scientists.
• InfoQ Podcast: Kim Scott on Radical Candor Very interesting to learn about giving and receiving feedback. To go deeper in the topic, the book is also great Radical Candor Kick Ass Without Humanity.
• Mik Kersten on Moving from Projects to Products An interesting interview about this clear trend.
• keynote: architecting for continuous delivery Jez Humble. Good ideas about how to create agile systems.
• Napoleon DevOps and Delivering Business Value Mark Schwartz. The importance of leveraging DevOps short feedback loops to evolve continuously the system.

Good talks/podcasts (April 2019 II)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently

• Systems that Run Forever Self-heal and Scale Joe Armstrong. A great talk by a great genius of our profession who recently passed away.
• Progressive Delivery James Governor. Good ideas to complement and amplify the continuous delivery using canary releasing, segmentation, toggles and so on.
• Scaling Your Architecture with Events and Services Randy Shoup. Very good insights on how to design and evolve a microservice architecture (assuming that you need it). 
• Why the fuss about serverless Simon Wardley. A great talk to improve our orientation skills in the world of technology. Makes an excellent introduction to Wardley's maps and uses them to describe the evolution of technology and what serverless implies.
• Management, soft skills, and other interesting topics:
• EMPOWERED Achieving Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People Martin Cagan. Interesting insights about leadership, management and good ideas for hiring in the context of product management.
• Radical Candor: The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss First Kim Scott. A great talk describing one of the most difficult skills for good management, sincere and actionable feedback.

Books I've read lately 2019

These are the books that I read lately:

• Event Streams in Action Alexander Dean, Valentin Crettaz
• DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations Mirco Hering
• Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale Tommy Mouser, Gary Gruver
• Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework Mik Kersten
• Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results Mike Rother
• The Journey to Enterprise Agility: Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy Daryl Kulak
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Isn't It Obvious? Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer Donella H. Meadows
• Notes to a software team leader, Roy Osherove
• Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way Jeffrey K. Liker
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love Marty Cagan
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp
• A Seat at the Table Mark Schwartz
• The Art Of Business Value Mark Schwartz
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
• Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow Dominica Degrandis
• Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Beyond The Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution Of DevOps Gene Kim, John Willis
• Data Analytics: An Essential Beginner’s Guide to Data Mining, Data Collection, Big Data Analytics for Business, and Business Intelligence Concepts, Herbert Jones
• Big Data: 4 Manuscripts: Data Analytics for Beginners, Deep Learning with Keras, Analyzing Data with Power BI, Convolutional Neural Networks in Python Anthony Williams

Read in progress:

• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations (2º read)
• Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework (2º read)

The ones I liked the most are (I will make reviews for them):

• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations
• Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
• Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Related:

• http://www.eferro.net/search/label/books
• Books I have read since August (and some Reads In Progress)

Good talks/podcasts (April 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently

• Ep. 107. Explore, Expand, Extract with Kent Beck Agile for Human Podcast. Any interview with Kent Beck is always interesting.
• AWS re:Invent 2018: Inside AWS. Technology Choices for Modern Applications A good summary of technology trends using in the cloud.
• Second Generation Lean Product Development Flow Don Reinertsen. This talk is a little bit dense but it provided a good mental model to think about product development.
• Beyond_Features Dan North (NDC London 2016). A great talk. I already recommended a previous version of this talk. It is a must. Thanks, @Fortiz2305 for reminding me of this talk.
• SE-Radio Episode 359: Engineering Maturity with Jean-Denis Greze. Good insights for anyone leading technical teams.
• Feature Branching considered Evil Thierry de Pauw. A good summary of the problems introduced by using feature branching strategy and how this block continuous integration.
• Cultivating Production Excellence - Taming Complex Distributed Systems Liz Fong-Jones. A good talk about operating system at scale.
• Yes, I Test in Production (And So Do You) Charity Majors. A great talk about the need for testing in production and the approach we can use.