Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Ian Randall, Engineering Lead at Pushpay and co-organiser of the Codemania conference in New Zealand and they chat about:

• The size of the New Zealand banking system and small number of banks makes it very easy to innovate in the payments space
• YOW! West talk “From Inception to Production – A Continuous Delivery Story“
• The more times you the do the things that are hard and hurt, opens up the opportunities for automation
• Blameless Retrospective (John Allspaw, Etsy, 2012) – promise that there will be no retribution or consequence for decisions that anybody made during an incident, they made the best decisions that they knew at the time, they were operating in a system that allowed you to make that system in the moment – therefore means that people are not afraid to make decisions because…

Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included:

• “Release It!” by Michael Nygard
• We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology
• We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need to move it left
• Joshua Kerievsky Agile 2016 keynote on “Modern Agile“
• Software process is like human DNA, we are different but essentially the same
• Gene Gotimer Agile 2016 talk “Experiences Bringing Continuous Delivery to a DoD Project“
• You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the cultural aspects of Agile and DevOps
• State of DevOps Report
• Critical to automate everything to eliminate manual process errors and loss of valuable data
• DevOps is starting to push into complex and regulated environments like finance, health and aerospace with an…