Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep…

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Featuring:

Dave Farley – Website, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Gerhard’s review for Modern Software Engineering - it even has a picture!
🎧 Ship It #5 - The foundations of Continuous Delivery
🎬 Tips for Building Successful Platform Teams
🎬 The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077 software failed
🎬 How a Quantum Computer Works
🎬 The Difference Between DevOps and Continuous Delivery
🎬 Is DevOps Good Or Bad?
👕 Qwertee.com - Dave buys his quirky t-shirts here

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