Did you ever notice how digital task boards are suddenly all the same horrid thing. Heavy engines of compromise that are as happy to supply a Gantt chart and resource plan as they are to give you a Kanban board. Slow and steady, not slow and heavy ...

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss the purpose and common pitfalls of software change approvals. They argue that strict, manual change approval processes are often just a reflex to pa...

After tackling the question of which branching strategy is best/blog/continuous-delivery-office-hours-e3, we turn our focus to architecture in this Continuous Delivery Office Hours episode. In particular, we discuss how big your building blocks shoul...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. While application code deployments have become highly automated and disciplined, database changes often remain manual, "folksy," and prone to ...

Throughout our history as a species, we have grappled in the quagmire of complexity around the decisions we make. There are ethical, moral, and social impacts to every new development and we continue to navigate this confusing landscape in a process ...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. Your system's architecture can support team autonomy, independent deployability, and independent evolution of components, or it can be a stick...

Your branching strategy can support Continuous Delivery, or make it an impossible goal. You should assess the impact of how you branch on your ability to deliver software at all times, and you'll find some branching techniques that work, while others...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. Your branching strategy can support Continuous Delivery, or make it an impossible goal. Teams should assess the impact of how they branch on t...

Or, why AI systems fail in surprisingly familiar ways. With the introduction of AI-assisted coding tools and agents, many people were hoping we’d solve all the problems of human teams. Without the people, politics, and personalities software deliver...

When you join Octopus, you get a great laptop and your choice from a range of docks, monitors, webcams, and input devices. You also get a home office allowance, which lets you upgrade your space and get 50% back. You may want a sit/stand desk, an awe...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, we ponder how you know whether your software is deployable so you can be confident you're...

You don't notice your GitHub Actions versions until you start getting warnings about things like "Node 20 is no longer supported". When you think about it, GitHub Actions are yet another dependency that needs to be kept up to date and present supply ...

Vibe coding offered us a tantalizing dream. Have a conversation with AI, forget the code exists, and ship software. This can be a useful way to solve localized and one-off problems. For production systems that need to live, breathe, and evolve for ye...

Tony Kelly hosts our first episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, we ponder why prioritizing Continuous Delivery CD is essential for managing risk. We chall...

When you can't deploy on demand, you've lost control of your software. Risk accumulates in unreleased code, and the more changes you store in one place, the more chance they have of triggering overheads, rework, and failures. When you have blockers s...

The flow rate of change means we don’t have all the answers! There’s a growing body of research around AI coding assistants with a confusing range of conflicting results. This is to be expected when the landscape is constantly shifting from coding s...

Continuous Delivery promotes low-risk releases, faster time-to-market, higher quality, lower costs, better products, and happier teams. Software is at the core of everything a business does today, so organizations must be able to respond to customer ...

If you've ever worked on a collection of different Node apps, you've likely encountered version conflicts. Everyone wants a different version of Node or PNPM, and your new job is trying to align them all, or managing versions daily. That's when open...