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5 Minute DevOps: Continuous Delivery FAQ

There are many misconceptions about CD. There are also many things about CD that are not obvious on the surface. Are you “CD curious”?

8 min readJan 23, 2021

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5-Minute DevOps: Review Board Dramatic Theater

Occasionally, I see well-written, well-meaning, but misguided advice that inspires me to respond with, “Oh God! No! Don’t do that!”

8 min readMar 28, 2024

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An image of a software change advisory board performing a dramatic play in a modern conference room, creatively blending technology and drama.

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5-Minute DevOps: I’m Too Smart to Make Mistakes

Do you make mistakes? Maybe you just need to learn from others who are smarter than you.

5 min readFeb 12, 2024

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5-Minute DevOps: AI is Taking Our Jobs!!

I’ve been running small experiments over the past year or so to see if AI has made me obsolete yet or if it’s more breathless marketing…

7 min readFeb 5, 2024

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5-Minute DevOps: AI is Taking Our Jobs!!

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5-Minute DevOps: Optimize for Sleep!

“So every time you walk in the door, quality is top of mind, and it’s completely part of the definition of done?” Yes! This is why.

3 min readDec 31, 2023

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5-Minute DevOps: The Three Wrongs

Are you REALLY agile or just delivering your product ideas in sprints? What if you’re wrong?

5 min readNov 18, 2023

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5-Minute DevOps: The Three Wrongs

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5 Minute DevOps: Pseudo Senior Developers

Not all senior developers are seniors developers. We should help them level up or help them find appropriate roles

4 min readOct 25, 2023

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5-Minute DevOps: Feature Team Strawman Fallacy

Large Scale Scrum’s recommends everyone use feature teams. Here’s a review of their reasons. You’d need to try hard to be more wrong.

12 min readOct 21, 2023

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5 Minute DevOps: Pointless Estimation

Several years ago, I posted “You Don’t Need Story Points.” I said, “Just make things small.” One thing I neglected to do was explain how…

5 min readSep 29, 2023

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5 Minute DevOps: The Waiting

Where is most of the time spent in your workflow?

9 min readSep 18, 2023

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5 Minute DevOps: The Waiting

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Bryan Finster

Bryan Finster

Developer, Value Stream Architect, and DevOps insurgent working for Defense Unicorns who optimizes for sleep. All opinions are my own. https://bryanfinster.com

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