Steve Fenton

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss the purpose and common pitfalls of software change approvals. They argue that strict, manual change approval processes are often just a reflex to pa...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. While application code deployments have become highly automated and disciplined, database changes often remain manual, "folksy," and prone to ...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. Your system's architecture can support team autonomy, independent deployability, and independent evolution of components, or it can be a stick...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. Your branching strategy can support Continuous Delivery, or make it an impossible goal. Teams should assess the impact of how they branch on t...

Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, we ponder how you know whether your software is deployable so you can be confident you're...

Tony Kelly hosts our first episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton. In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, we ponder why prioritizing Continuous Delivery CD is essential for managing risk. We chall...

You’ve settled on the key metrics to assess engineering team performance and satisfaction. Now, how do you ensure those metrics don’t become a source of stress or resentment? Any time you set a target – be it deployment frequency or mean time to rec...

An exclusive look at our research data to see how Argo CD stacks up against everything else when it comes to GitOps and software delivery. ...

Most software teams have heard of the "DORA Metrics" or the "DORA 4 Keys", but there is so much more to the research. This session looks at those well-known metrics, but then takes you beyond them to some even more crucial insights into what great so...

In this panel discussion, Matt Allford, Charlotte Fleming, and Steve Fenton walk through some of the key findings from the research projects that took place at Octopus Deploy this year. The State of GitOps report1 The State of GitOps report investi...