Dave Mangot is a speaker, author, teacher, and Silicon Valley veteran. His focus is helping private equity portofolio companies use their technology organization to maximize growth, and he joins me today to discuss the contentious topic of Friday deployments and why you definitely should do them and why you definitely should not do them. Confused?

In this episode

Mores are not moratoriums
Shaming is inappropriate, on both sides of the issue
Every outage is unexpected, nobody knows what might go wrong
Friday deployment should be an informed choice
Why small batch deployments are important
Deploying features vs other changes
You should be able to deploy at any time, but separate that from choosing to deploy at any time
Why more QA can be worse than less QA
If deployment hurts, or causes fear, do it more
Responding to failures when they do occur
Building an accurate mental model of your system

Resources
Article: Deploy on Fridays, or Don't
Book: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and Dave Farley
Talk: How Complex Systems Fail by Richard Cook (Velocity 2012)
Book: Project to Product by Mik Kersten
Book: Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming

Guest
Dave Mangot
Web site: https://www.mangoteque.com/
LinkedIn: mangot
Twitter: @davemangot

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Dave Mangot — Should you deploy on Fridays?