What’s the one engineering practice your team claims to value… but consistently avoids when under pressure?

We have a new addition to our highly regarded "TDD & BDD: Design Through Testing" course that will revolutionise the way our students learn on our training site... 👇

Below are the 14 markers for successful Continuous Delivery within an organisation...

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I worked on an XP team once where we genuinely had 100% test coverage. It was awesome, we could make changes so fast, and yes we still had the occasional live defect

100% Test Coverage is a LIE, Here’s Why... YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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The Junior Developer CRISIS: How to Build a Team When AI Does the Entry-Level Work YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

Your AI is a machine and the junior dev is a human. So treat the AI like a machine and your junior dev like a human.

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Trisha Gee — Java Champion, Author & Developer Advocate Making hard things feel simple.

I updated my personal site! I've been wanting to give it a "proper" design overhaul for years, but the time investment needed meant that I kept putting it off. Thanks to Claude, and to having a bit more "free" time right now, I finally did it! Take a look:

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Every software team will eventually face a heart-stopping mistake, whether it is a developer accidentally deleting live data during a migration or a junior ops engineer unplugging a production server to use a vacuum cleaner... 😬

Being the Human in the Loop – Kevlin Henney YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

Nice analysis by @kevlin.bsky.social about being a human using ai coding tools. His focus on the engineering and general principles rather the day-to-day tactics. youtu.be/vpYJMr1pJRY?...

If you had to deploy a single line of code to production right now, how much of that process is automated and how much relies on 'hoping' nothing breaks?

The $1M MISTAKE That Taught Me THIS About Developer Team Culture YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

Why "bad things" happening is actually the best chance for a development team to learn.

This is the story of how a costly mistake taught me a BIG lesson about team culture in software engineering.

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AI is the ultimate amplifier. If your org has Taylorists as senior leaders, you're in for a tough ride and I emphasise

The Truth About Developer Productivity in the AI Age (IT'S A TRAP) YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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Measure AI prompt counts? Watch your developers artificially inflate their usage.

Measure the percentage of AI-generated code? Watch your codebase bloat with unnecessary classes and methods just to hit a quota.

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When you obsess over individual activity metrics, you fall straight into the trap of Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

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You could merge 100 pull requests in a single day, but if your release process is bottlenecked by a centralized testing team and you only deploy to production once a month, you have delivered absolutely zero extra value to your customers.

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This is just Taylorism wrapped in a shiny new algorithm.

A recent vendor report proudly claimed: "Daily AI users ship 60% more pull requests than non-users." Who cares?

Pull request throughput is not a unit of delivery. It is not a unit of business success.

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Suddenly, vendors are falling over themselves to sell "developer intelligence" platforms that measure how many hours of AI coding a developer uses, or what percentage of a codebase is AI-generated.

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Is AI actually dragging our industry 20 years backwards? We are currently in a Gen AI hype bubble, and it is bringing out the absolute worst impulses in engineering management.

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AI is helping us generate code faster than ever, but how do you ensure you aren't just deploying bugs at record speed? That is exactly why Continuous Delivery remains the state of the art for software development, providing the essential safety net your team needs.

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People approach a legacy rewrite like they’re trying to swap an aeroplane engine mid-flight while standing on the wing. It’s madness. Why aren’t we talking more about diverting the flow at the aggregator level to prove the new path works before we touch a single line of the old mess?

What Does Continuous Delivery Look Like WITHOUT Automation? YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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