Content Drop for week ending 6/26/2022

Falkor at the Field Museum

After taking a bit more than a year off from writing these things I am trying to get back into the swing of writing these things.  Here's some stuff I found interesting this week:

Podcasts

• No Nonsense Agile Podcast - Working with offshore teams - really enjoyed his conversation around best practices of dealing with offshore teams.

• No Nonsense Agile Podcast - Lean Software Development: Conversation with Mary and Tom Poppendick - Really good conversation with Mary and Tom about Lean software. Lots of good stuff but a key takeaway for me was around remembering that difference between efficiency and effectiveness and that while we can be efficient we may not always be efficient.

Blog posts

• I really like this overview of Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley as he really nails the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. It gets a bit technical in parts but it really ties in how these practices are necessary parts of agile and product.

• Technical deep dive into how CloudFlare uses lava lamps to generate random numbers for their cryptographic keys

• Cheap shots at SAFe are easy but this one is pretty good.

• Here are few ideas of doing agile in a remote environment. Not sure I love how they call agile a methodology but the rest of the list is solid.