Category Archives: Agile Development

Is Continuous Delivery Riskier?

Posted on March 18, 2015 by davef

I read an article in CIO magazine today “Three Views on Continuous Delivery“. Of course the idea of such an article is to present differing viewpoints, and I have no need, or even desire, for the world to see everything … Continue reading →

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Incremental Design – Part I

Posted on March 4, 2015 by davef

Continuous Delivery is all about making small changes. Work flows more easily, planning is simpler, error detection is helped and the time from idea to value is reduced when we make changes in small increments, but how do you solve … Continue reading →

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Cargo-cult DevOps

Posted on December 15, 2014 by davef

My next blog post in the XebiaLabs “CD Master Series” is now available. DevOps is a very successful meme in our industry. Most organisations these days seem to be saying that they aspire to it, though they don’t necessarily know … Continue reading →

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What does “good” look like?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by davef

The nice folks at XebiaLabs have asked me to do a few guest blog posts on their site. My first post is called “What does ‘Good’ look like?” “I think that we have a problem in the software development industry. … Continue reading →

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The basics of TDD

Posted on August 11, 2014 by davef

The objectives of Test Driven Development and unit testing are generally misunderstood. The problem is the word ‘test’, it is much less about testing and much more about specification of requirements, showing your working – as in maths, and the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Feature Branch

Posted on December 5, 2011 by davef

I recently attended the Devoxx conference. One of the speakers was talking on a topic close to my heart, Continuous Delivery. His presentation was essentially a tools demonstration, but one of the significant themes of his presentation was the use … Continue reading →

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Disruptor – The implications on design

Posted on July 14, 2011 by davef

My company, LMAX, has recently released our disruptor technology for high performance computing. You can read a Martin Fowler’s overview here. The level of interest that we have received has been very pleasing, but there is one point that is … Continue reading →

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How long to retain build output?

Posted on January 20, 2011 by davef

Martin Fowler has recently made a post on the topic of the importance of reproducible builds. This is a vital principle for any process of continuous integration. The ability to recreate any given version of your system is essential, but … Continue reading →

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The Illusion of Rigor (Superstition in software development) – Part 1

Posted on November 28, 2010 by davef

When I was a software consultant I got to see a wide of software projects in a wide variety of different organizations. My subjective experience is that most software projects in most organizations get it quite badly wrong most of … Continue reading →

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Acceptance Criteria for Release Management Maturity Model

Posted on November 20, 2010 by davef

I was asked a good question by a colleague a couple of days ago. On p419 of my book Jez and I show and I describe a “Configuration and Release Management Maturity Model”. My colleague asked: “What are sensible acceptance … Continue reading →

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