Listen "Dave Mangot — Should you deploy on Fridays?"
Episode Synopsis
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 episodeMores are not moratoriumsShaming is inappropriate, on both sides of the issueEvery outage is unexpected, nobody knows what might go wrongFriday deployment should be an informed choiceWhy small batch deployments are importantDeploying features vs other changesYou should be able to deploy at any time, but separate that from choosing to deploy at any timeWhy more QA can be worse than less QAIf deployment hurts, or causes fear, do it moreResponding to failures when they do occurBuilding an accurate mental model of your systemResourcesArticle: Deploy on Fridays, or Don'tBook: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and Dave FarleyTalk: How Complex Systems Fail by Richard Cook (Velocity 2012)Book: Project to Product by Mik KerstenBook: Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards DemingGuestDave MangotWeb site: https://www.mangoteque.com/LinkedIn: mangotTwitter: @davemangotWatch this episode on YouTube.
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