Dave Farley's Weblog

I have been working on a side project over the past year or so. I had been making content for my YouTube channel and publishing articles, how to guides and other writing and learning from others,...

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The usual route to a Technical Leadership role is by getting promoted because of your technical skills or experience after working on a successful project. That was certainly true of me: I got my...

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Team Topologies – Book Review In many organisations where high-quality software development is essential for success, there is often a bias toward “immediate technological solutions” (autom...

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I have a new book out. It’s called “Modern Software Engineering” and I have been working on it for the past few years.  The ideas in it grew out of a growing realisation that the way that ...

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March 8th is International Women’s Day, which got me thinking again about why we have so few women programmers (well, in Europe and the USA anyway). Things didn’t start out this way. Many o...

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I recently made a passing comment in one of my videos about SAFe, it was a bit of a cheap-shot on my part if I am honest and I got picked-up on it, appropriately, by a viewer. It is too … Conti...

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This year I started a YouTube channel in which, every week, I discuss ideas related to Continuous Delivery. I have been very pleased with its success. As part of that, but also because of working...

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Welcome! First, I’d like to say welcome. You’ve chosen a great industry and profession in which to pursue a career. We software developers are changing the world. We are changing the world wi...

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When Jez and I wrote our book, we knew that we were describing a powerful approach. We were very nervous of claiming a “Methodology” though. Instead we saw the Continuous Delivery book as des...

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10 Years Since My Book Was Published My book, “Continuous Delivery” was launched on 10th August 2010, so in a few weeks time it will be the 10th anniversary of its publication. Jez and I spen...

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