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The Progressive Delivery Manifesto
One of the interesting problems of being immersed in something for years is that it feels really obvious to you. The curse of knowledge is real. So we were really excited to give a talk at IT Revolution’s conference, the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit. It gave us a chance to lay out our vision of…
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Alone or Lonely?
When we’re making software, it’s easy to have our hearts and minds focused on The Next Thing, the new hardware that will support it, the rate of adoption. But it’s worth remembering that you may have devoted customers who are not going to install your new things right away. They’re worth listening to.
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Customization Complications
On the surface, letting people have all the customizations anyone has ever asked for seems like a great way to get alignment with what they want. They’ll just use the things they need! And maybe they want something they haven’t thought to ask for. But that’s just the first thought, because the more options a…
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Vote in the DevOps Dozen!
It’s beeeeeeeen ONE WEEK since our BOOK RELEASE. (Did I give you an earworm? Please join me in my suffering) We have been nominated as a finalist in the DevOps Dozen competition, along with a strong slate of other new books. We hope you’ll vote here on the book that you’ve gotten the most value…
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Launch Day!
Progressive Delivery is a book that released today, but it’s us catching the wild yeasts of the last few years and cultivating them into wine and sourdough. We don’t know exactly how it will turn out, but we truly believe that our principles are correct, and that this is the way that software is moving,…
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Consent of the Upgraded
Software users, especially in the enterprise, are a captive audience, until they aren’t. How do we respect their experience and their capacity to consent?
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Merry Meet: Monktoberfest and Book Launch
Don’t let anyone tell you creative collaboration requires co-presence. Last week was the first time in at least 7 years that all four Progressive Delivery authors were in the same place at the same time. In that time, we identified a pattern happening in the world, named it, honed our understanding, and wrote a whole…
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DORA and Progressive Delivery
The DORA 2025 report covers the second year of the AI revolution, and what it means for organizational transformation. This post is the Progressive Delivery take-aways.
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The books are real!
Advance copies of the Progressive Delivery book have arrived, and they smell like the start of school and learning cool new stuff.
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Book signing at ETLS!
For the first time since we started writing this book, all four authors will be in the same place at once! We’re doing a talk and a book launch at Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit in Las Vegas in September. Get your tickets now for the conference Heidi has always referred to as “what happens when…
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