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Unaccountability is how organisations fail to improve original ↗

13 Jan 2026

2025

My personal values original ↗

20 Jul 2025

Starting from scratch is slower original ↗

12 May 2025

Don’t use a feedback waterfall original ↗

23 Apr 2025

Being a good advisor original ↗

21 Jan 2025

2024

Servant leadership and saviour leadership original ↗

11 Nov 2024

Escape ticketing hell with a shift to self-service platforms original ↗

15 Aug 2024

How to overcome technology anarchy with aligned autonomy original ↗

6 Aug 2024

Why Kubernetes, Kafka, or Istio can derail your platform engineering efforts original ↗

22 Jul 2024

Why unplanned tech work is a silent killer original ↗

10 Jun 2024

Three reasons why Equal Experts doesn’t recommend the SAFe framework original ↗

13 May 2024

2022

Why you need alignment with autonomy at scale original ↗

27 Sept 2022

4 ways to successfully scale agile delivery original ↗

9 Sept 2022

Why product teams still need major incident management original ↗

3 Aug 2022

4 ways to remove the treacle in change management original ↗

4 Mar 2022

The maintenance mode myth original ↗

19 Feb 2022

5 ways to minimise your run costs with You Build It You Run It original ↗

3 Feb 2022

How to decide when to use You Build It You Run It (and when not to use it)original ↗

23 Jan 2022

2021

GitOps is a placebo original ↗

1 Jun 2021

Investing in Continuous Delivery original ↗

12 Feb 2021

Continuous Delivery levels original ↗

29 Jan 2021

How to measure product delivery success original ↗

20 Jan 2021

2020

What you should and (probably) shouldn’t try from SRE original ↗

4 Dec 2020

Continuous Delivery target measures original ↗

19 Nov 2020

Aim for Operability, not SRE as a Cult original ↗

20 Oct 2020

You Build It SRE Run It original ↗

20 Oct 2020

You Build It Ops Sometimes Run It original ↗

4 Oct 2020

You Build It Ops Run It at scale original ↗

4 Oct 2020

You Build It Ops Runs It original ↗

4 Oct 2020

Who Runs It original ↗

4 Oct 2020

Joining Equal Experts original ↗

1 Oct 2020

Implementing You Build It You Run It at scale original ↗

19 May 2020

You Build It You Run It at scale original ↗

15 May 2020

Availability targets original ↗

11 May 2020

You Build It You Run It original ↗

7 Apr 2020

Operability measures original ↗

22 Feb 2020

Build Operability in original ↗

31 Jan 2020

Multi-Demand Operations original ↗

27 Jan 2020

Multi-Demand Architecture original ↗

15 Jan 2020

Multi-Demand IT original ↗

7 Jan 2020

2019

The Bimodal delusion original ↗

17 Dec 2019

Strategising for Continuous Delivery original ↗

17 Dec 2019

Rebuild The Thing Wrong original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Build The Right Thing and Build The Thing Right original ↗

20 Jun 2019

IT as a Business Differentiator original ↗

4 Jun 2019

IT as a Cost Centre original ↗

31 May 2019

Deployment pipeline design and the Theory Of Constraints original ↗

23 May 2019

2018

Continuous Delivery and the Theory Of Constraints original ↗

26 Nov 2018

2017

Resilience as a Continuous Delivery enabler original ↗

19 Nov 2017

The value of Optimising For Resilience original ↗

3 Oct 2017

When Optimising For Robustness fails original ↗

13 Sept 2017

The cost and theatre of Optimising For Robustness original ↗

22 Aug 2017

Discontinuous Delivery original ↗

20 Aug 2017

Aim for Operability, not DevOps as a Cult original ↗

20 Apr 2017

2016

Publishing the Measuring Continuous Delivery book original ↗

4 Nov 2016

Announcing the Measuring Continuous Delivery book original ↗

3 Oct 2016

2015

End-To-End Testing considered harmful original ↗

12 Dec 2015

Release Testing Is Risk Management Theatre original ↗

21 Jul 2015

Organisation antipattern: Build Feature Branching original ↗

20 Jul 2015

Organisation antipattern: Integration Feature Branching original ↗

5 Jul 2015

Organisation pattern: Trunk Based Development original ↗

16 Jun 2015

What Is Continuous Delivery original ↗

12 May 2015

Version Control Strategies original ↗

10 Feb 2015

Organisation antipattern: Release Feature Branching original ↗

10 Feb 2015

No Release Testing original ↗

28 Jan 2015

2014

Application antipattern: Hardcoded Stub original ↗

29 Dec 2014

Organisation antipattern: Passive Disaster Recovery original ↗

12 Dec 2014

Pipeline antipattern: Artifact Promotion original ↗

3 Oct 2014

Organisation antipattern: Dual Value Streams original ↗

5 Aug 2014

Pipeline pattern: Analysis Stage original ↗

1 Jul 2014

Organisation pattern: Trunk Based Development Branching original ↗

24 Jun 2014

Announcing the Build Quality In book original ↗

1 Jun 2014

More releases with less risk original ↗

14 Apr 2014

Organisation antipattern: Consumer Release Testing original ↗

31 Mar 2014

Application pattern: Proxy Consumer Driven Contracts original ↗

21 Feb 2014

Organisation antipattern: Release Testing original ↗

8 Feb 2014

2013

Application pattern: Consumer Driven Contracts original ↗

18 Dec 2013

Application pattern: Vertical Divide and Conquer original ↗

1 Dec 2013

Application pattern: API Examples original ↗

8 Nov 2013

Application pattern: Verify Branch By Abstraction original ↗

14 Oct 2013

Organisation antipattern: Project Teams original ↗

20 Sept 2013

Continuous Delivery and Cost of Delay original ↗

9 Sept 2013

No Projects original ↗

28 Jul 2013

Application antipattern: Serialisation original ↗

20 Jul 2013

Release more with less original ↗

11 Jun 2013

Build Continuous Delivery in original ↗

15 Apr 2013

Continuous Delivery != DevOps original ↗

27 Feb 2013

Optimal cycle time strategy original ↗

12 Feb 2013

2012

The Strangler Pipeline – Autonomation original ↗

9 Nov 2012

The Strangler Pipeline – Legacy and greenfield original ↗

2 Nov 2012

The Strangler Pipeline – Scaling up original ↗

29 Oct 2012

The Strangler Pipeline – Challenges original ↗

28 Sept 2012

Pipeline Pattern: Stage Strangler original ↗

22 Sept 2012

Continuous Delivery and organisational change original ↗

10 Sept 2012

Updating a Pipeline original ↗

28 Aug 2012

Pipeline Pattern: Artifact Container original ↗

6 Aug 2012

Pipeline Antipattern: Deployment Build original ↗

18 Jul 2012

Pipeline Pattern: Aggregate Artifact original ↗

25 Jun 2012

Pipeline Antipattern: Uber-Artifact original ↗

17 Jun 2012