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A Continuous Delivery reading list

Over time I have worked a lot with continuous delivery and tried to explain why it is such an important concept. When I was asked for a reading list, I was left without a clear answer. So this is an attempt at creating one. πŸ“š

I have some writing that I might do around these concepts, but this list is it for now. Check back later, I will update this when I have something. 😊 Let me know if you have any feedback or questions.

The list

Types: πŸ“— = Book, 🌐 = Website, πŸ“ˆ = Report, πŸ“ = Blog, 🎬 = Video, 🎧 = Podcast

There’s of course a lot of related topics that I take for granted. Things like DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Build Pipelines and Continuous Integration are essential but not mentioned. You can easily find a lot about them online.

Let me know if I should include anything else. I would love to learn something new as well. πŸ™‚

Thanks to Terje Heen and Asgaut Mjølne for contributing with input and content. Also a bit of AI. 😊 Gemini and Claude are my favourites.

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XP2010

So last week I was lucky enough to attend XP2010 in Trondheim. It was an intense week with great people and great content. It’s kind of hard to process all this content, but it’s time to try.

After listening to the excellent advice of Ole Christian I attended the workshop of Chris Matts on Feature Injection . It was absolutely one of my best sessions at XP2010 and it turned out to be really relevant to what I’m doing at my current client. I think I’ll be able to use a lot of this when it comes to working with the requirements and really understanding what matters.

After an intense workshop it’s always good to listen to Mary Poppendieck talk about Lean in a nutshell . I’ve heard or read a lot of her stuff before, but she has a really unique way of explaining and selling her point of view. I always learn a lot from listening to her.

Ole Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund rounded off the day in a nice way with Mikado refactoring . It’s an interesting and structured way of doing large refactorings. I’ve done something similar with rolling back changes when I get stuck, but this is a nice structured way to approach it. Now if only my computer hadn’t been acting up I would actually be able to practice it a bit more.

The second day started out with a bang, first with a keynote by Scott Page, then listening to Cory Foy talk about craftsmanship. Head over to the program page of XP2010 to see the videos. It’s really worth the time. While you’re there also check out the talks by Mary Poppendieck and Marcus Ahnve.

Now I must admit that most of thursday was lost to my nerves, as I was holding two lightning talks that day. Of the ones I saw and really liked was the talk of Jonas FollesΓΈ about the Blackbox Recorder . This sparked quite an interest in the Java crowd, so some started the Java version: Jackbox Recorder . Sadly one of my talks was at the same time as the My Agile Suitcase Pecha Kucha, so I didn’t get to see it. I heard great things about it. Luckily there’s video out.

On the last day, conference fatigue were setting in. But I got a great session of Coding Katas. Interesting to both see other languages and other people code. I really also liked the workshop Cory Foy gave on innovation games. It opened my eyes on how to do facilitation around requirements and features, and tied quite nicely into the stuff from the first day with Feature Injection.

Well, this is just a try at writing down what I remember and process some of the information. I know it’s summary, just let me know if there’s something I should expand ont.

It was really a great conference, like none I’ve attended before. Thank you to all the brilliant people that I met and the organizers.

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Smidig 2009 and my talk

Smidig 2009, Norways very own Agile conference was held on October 22nd and 23rd. I have attended it earlier, and this year I was one of the organizers. The entire experience has been excellent, though a lot of work. Others were working a lot more than me, and I reall have to give them credit for beeing such a positive and active crowd.

Tandberg did an excellent effort of providing us with the video equipment, and enabled us to make the videos available. Even though sometechnical difficulties resulted in loosing some talks (mine included), they did an excellent job, and a big thank you to them.

I held a talk on agile deployment (again), due to some last minute cancellations.

Because my talk was lost I decided to put some details here on how you could get the material if you are interested. So:

My own company, Capgemini had 7 talks, which was a really good effort. To see other videos (Norwegian only) go to http://tcs.java.no .