The CTO's Guide to Fixing Slow Delivery
Why pushing for speed slows down software delivery. Dave Farley reveals why a chief technology officer, cto, engineering lead, or dev manager fails when treating software development like a factory line. Learn how every software engineer, software developer, and dev team can improve agile software development and agile practices. In this video on modern software engineering, Dave Farley explains how a software team can optimise for fast learning rather than rushing output. Key Takeaways: - Why adding dev headcount makes projects later - Why speed & quality rise together in software engineering - How shorten feedback loops transform your software team - 🧠 OUR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRAINING COURSES: https://courses.cd.training/ TRAINING FOR YOUR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAMS ➡️ https://courses.cd.training/pages/buy-for-my-team - Dave on: X ➡️ https://x.com/davefarley77 LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927/ bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/davefarley77.bsky.social Modern Software Engineering on X ➡️ https://x.com/ModernSoftwareX Modern Software Engineering on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-software-engineering Modern Software Engineering on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/modernswe.bsky.social - ⭐ PATREON: Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon 🎥 Join Us On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@modern.s.engineering - 🔗 LINKS: "Anatomy of a Deployment Pipeline Course" ➡️ https://courses.cd.training/courses/the-anatomy-of-a-deployment-pipeline "CD Pipelines - Webinar" https://courses.cd.training/courses/cd-pipelines-webinar "Buy for My Team" https://courses.cd.training/pages/buy-for-my-team 📚 BOOKS: "CD Pipelines - Book" https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines "Accelerate, The Science of Lean Software and DevOps", by Nicole Fosgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim https://amzn.to/2YYf5Z8 "The Mythical Man-Month", The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition https://amzn.to/3oCyPeU - 👕 T-SHIRTS: A fan of the T-shirts I wear in my videos? Grab your own, at reduced prices EXCLUSIVE TO CONTINUOUS DELIVERY FOLLOWERS! Get money off the already reasonably priced t-shirts! 🔗 Check out their collection HERE: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Uby9iA 🚨 DON'T FORGET TO USE THIS DISCOUNT CODE: ContinuousDelivery - CHANNEL SPONSORS: Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on its Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MSExOCTDEP Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 4,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com - #cto #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment