Saturday, January 02, 2021

Books I've read lately 2020




These are the books that I read lately:



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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Good talks/podcasts (Dec 2020 II)

 


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

  • AgileByExample 2017: Donald Reinertsen - Making Money with Variability (Donald Reinertsen) [Lean Product Management, Product, Product Strategy] Interesting talk where Donald explains why, unlike in Lean Manufacturing, we can exploit the variability to innovate and achieve better outcomes in product development.
  • Beyond Features: rethinking agile software delivery (Dan North) [Agile, Inspirational, Lean, Lean Software Development] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Maybe we've been thinking about delivery all wrong. Maybe features aren’t the point after all. Maybe there are other kinds of work that we should recognise, schedule and track as first class citizens. Maybe this could take some of the uncertainty out of the delivery process, and give us back our sanity. Maybe.
  • GOTO 2020 • When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!) (Sam Newman, Martin Fowler) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Evolutionary Design, Microservices] Interesting conversation about tradeoffs to be considered for using a microservices architecture.
  • SLO TheoryWhy the Business needs SLOs (Danyel Fisher, Nathen Harvey) [Observability, Operations, Technical Practices] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Great explanation about SLI, SLOs, error budgets and how to introduce them to improve our production operations.
Reminder, All these talks are interesting even just listening to them, without seeing them.

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Saturday, December 19, 2020

Good talks/podcasts (Dec 2020 I)


 

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

  • Cadence: Uber’s Workflow Engine with Maxim Fateev (Maxim Fateev) [Architecture, Scalability] Interesting podcast about cadence, an scalable workflow engine.
  • O11ycast - Ep. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of Intercom (Rich Archbold) [Continuous Delivery, Devops, Engineering Culture, Platform, Technical Practices] In episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial importance of timely shipping, high-cardinality metrics, and the engineering value of running less software.
  • The Art of Modern Ops · Camille Fournier on Building Internal Kubernetes Platforms (Camille Fournier) [Engineering Culture, Platform, Platform as a product] In this latest episode of the “Art of Modern Ops” Camille Fournier (@skamille), Managing Director at Two Sigma and Cornelia Davis (@cdavisafc), CTO at Weaveworks discuss what it takes to build an internal platform within your organization.
  • Continuous Delivery and Data Management (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Technical Practices, XP] In this episode Dave Farley describes the basics of a Continuous Delivery, DevOps, approach for Data. How do we apply the software engineering disciplines of CD to Data? How do we configuration manage, deploy, migrate and test the data related aspects of our systems?
  • Continuous Delivery simply explained (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Technical Practices, XP] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) In this episode see Continuous Delivery explained by Dave Farley as he explores the fundamentals in a way that helps us to understand the real value in this advanced approach to software development, this engineering-for-software.
  • Continuous Deployment or Continuous Delivery? | When To Release (Dave Farley) [Continuous Delivery, Technical Practices, XP] In this episode, Dave Farley explores the differences and helps you to decide which approach is best for you - continuous delivery vs continuous deployment. 

 

Reminder, All these talks are interesting even just listening to them, without seeing them.

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Monday, November 09, 2020

Good talks/podcasts (Nov 2020 I)


 

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

  • Enterprise Architecture = Architecting the Enterprise? (Gregor Hohpe) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Engineering Culture] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) This session takes a serious but light-hearted look at the role of enterprise architects in modern IT organizations.
  • You Must Be CRAZY To Do Pair Programming (Dave Farley) [Agile, Technical Practices, XP] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) One of the best descriptions I have heard of the usefulness of this practice. Dave provides pair programming examples, describes some pair programming best practices, and challenges some thinking about pair programming patterns and anti-patterns.
  • The GIST Framework (Itamar Gilad) [Lean Product Management, Product, Product Discovery, Product Strategy] In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework.
  • Talking Serverless #27 - Gojko Adzic Partner at Neuri Consulting (Gojko Adzic) [Architecture, Microservices, Serverless]
  • Reboot Your Team (Christina Wodtke) [Engineering Culture, Product, Product Team, Teams] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Christina told us how to reboot the team you have, or build a healthy one from the ground up. 

  • The Product-Led Journey (John Cutler) [Lean Product Management, Product, Product Discovery, Product Strategy] Interesting insights into the changes needed to become a product led company.
  • Scale, Microservices and Flow (James Lewis) [Agile, Architecture, Engineering Culture, Microservices, Teams] Interesting presentation explaining the relationship between high performance teams, flow, complex adaptive systems, and the organization of teams and how it affects the organization scalability. 

 

 

Reminder, All these talks are interesting even just listening to them, without seeing them.

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Sunday, November 08, 2020

Small Safe Steps workshop

 


 

If your team wants to have better strategies to manage large and risky changes, improve their slicing skills, or practice techniques as parallel changes, branch by abstraction, look at this Small Safe Steps workshop.

I have prepared information so that anyone can easily facilitate the workshop.

Please use the material, run the workshop, give me improvement feedback.  And if you need advice on running or adapting it, contact me, and I will be happy to help.

 

Small Safe Step workshop

 

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Tuesday, October 06, 2020

The Big Branch Theory - Product Teams podcast

El pasado 1 de octubre se publico el episodio de The Big Branch Theory en el que pude conversar con mi amigo Ronny sobre los equipos de Producto, los equipos de Plataforma y algún que otro tema relacionado.

La verdad es que como siempre disfrute de la conversación con Ronny y creo que salieron temas bastante interesantes.


Espero que nuestra coversación le pueda aportar algo a alguien, y estaría encantado de conocer otras opiniones sobre los equipos de producto, las plataformas como producto y sobre el resto de los temas que tratamos.

Podeis descargar el episodio desde:
https://thebigbranchtheorypodcast.github.io/post/product-teams-edu-ferro/

Y no dejeis de serguir este interesantisimo podcast https://twitter.com/BigBranchTheory