Kanban guru, Fernando Cuenca joins the podcast alongside Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan and Csaba Bereczki to discuss Kanban. Hosted by Zarar Siddiqi.

00:00 🚦 Introducing Kanban: Why Your Scrum Teams Are Stuck

Learn why traditional sprint methodologies might be holding your team back and how Kanban can unlock better workflow

04:32 🔍 The Kanban Lens: Understanding Your Current Process

Discover how Kanban isn't about switching processes, but about gaining insights into your existing workflow and identifying improvement opportunities

11:45 🤝 Tackling Organizational Dependencies Like a Pro

Master strategies for managing complex dependencies in large organizations and keep your team's productivity flowing

18:20 💡 Work Item Types: Not All Tasks Are Created Equal

Unlock the secret to creating more meaningful work categories that actually make sense to your customers

24:15 📋 Crafting Powerful Team Policies for Maximum Autonomy

Learn how clearly defined policies can surprisingly give your team MORE freedom, not less

30:40 🧩 WIP Limits: The Game-Changing Productivity Hack

Understand how work-in-progress limits can transform your team's efficiency and speed of delivery

36:50 🚀 From Scrum to Continuous Flow: The Kanban Evolution

Explore how high-performing teams are moving beyond rigid sprint boundaries to a more flexible, value-driven approach

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Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss:

00:00 Intro
00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding
11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load
14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records
18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE
27:10 Scaling startup infrastructure efficiently
41:30 Zarar’s crazy story about his old boss
42:53 Viability of one-stack frameworks like Elixir LiveView and OneStack
49:50 Where does AI fit in current and future development workflows?

Book link: https://www.amazon.ca/DevOps-Desperate-Hands-Survival-Guide/dp/1718502486/

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Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss:

- How to Shift Left on Accessibility
- Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product
- What developers need to known about accessibility
- How does shift left work with accessibility
- Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products
- Are Ontario accessibility guidelines too onerous?
- Big Tech / operating systems handing accessibilities, which companies are getting it right
- Much more...

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John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-design

Topics include:

- What does software complexity look like?
- How do we identify complexity before it develops?
- The importance of continuous refactoring
- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
- What John thinks of agile
- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Topics include:

- What does software complexity look like?
- How do we identify complexity before it develops?
- The importance of continuous refactoring
- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
- What John thinks of agile
- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Tom Howlett, Head of Product Management at Sonar is our guest today. Sonar is the leader in helping engineers write clean code through continuous feedback during the development process, and is trusted by millions of developers worldwide.

We talk about:

- The idea of "Start Left" and how it ties into "Shift Left"
- Gen AI in developer workflows and how it promotes TDD
- How does Sonar empower development teams? What's the role of the PM?
- What constitutes a bad test?
- Will static code analysis ever eliminate the need for pen testing?
- How can static code analysis catch bugs across integration boundaries?
- What does a team at Sonar look like?
- Is there a QA or BA role at Sonar?
- What makes Sonar a great place to work

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Max Tykhenko, Security Architect from IBM joins the podcast to talk about:

• What are the attack surfaces that most people don't think about enough?
• How has the security landscape changed over the last few years in terms of threat detection. How vulnerable are we than how we were 10 years ago?
• We all know what shift left generally means, but what does it mean for security? Analyzing this question from a developer and management point of view.

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Frederic Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, from kubefirst.io joins the podcast to dive into GitOps. We discuss:

- What is GitOps?
- How GitOps can help orgs manage their infrastructure
- How to get started
- Secrets management
- Monorepos

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Elisabeth Hendrickson, author of the hugely impactful book, Explore It! joins the podcast to talk

- How the Explore It! text came to be
- What is it about testing that tends to make it a gate rather than part of development
- How we can scale XP practices
- Importance of focus and how XP helps achieve it.
- How to deal with resistance when introducing XP practices
- How to maintain customer centricity while scaling
- How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Project Manager patterns
- Simpler Machines - a newsletter recommendation from Elisabeth: https://simplermachines.gumroad.com/

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