By Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
November 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-67-9
Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
How To Sketch Better Technical Diagrams
By Matthew Skelton
February 2019
ISBN 978-1-912058-93-8
This book provides a very practical approach to better whiteboard sketches. Although the techniques are based on sound research and practical usage, the theory is kept to a minimum and you can get started with techniques almost immediately.
Internal Tech Conferences: Accelerate Multi-team Learning
By Victoria Morgan-Smith and Matthew Skelton
April 2019
ISBN 978-1-912058-96-9
Internal tech conferences can make a significant impact on an organisation's level of sharing, learning, and communication by accelerating multi-team learning across technology departments. An increasing number of enlightened organisations are using this powerful approach to spread and embed new ideas and practices.
In this book we share practical advice on how to prepare, run, and follow-up on an internal tech conference, together with some case studies from several organisations showing the approaches in common and the adaptations for each situation.
By Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore, and Rob Thatcher
July 2019
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
This guide provides a set of hands-on practices based on real-world, tried-and-tested experience across multiple organizations for teams to adopt (and adapt) in order to promote and enhance software operability.
Mattia is originally from Verona, the city of love and home of Romeo of Juliet. He is a software developer and team leader with a great passion for learning and continuous improvement. His focus is to help teams strive to get better, using Kanban, Lean, Agile, and of course a lot of data and metrics. He's been interested in everything to do with Agile since the beginning of his career in 2008. He loves attending and speaking at conferences and meetups for sharing experiences and learning from each other.
Twitter: @BattistonMattia
LinkedIn: Mattia Battiston
By Mattia Battiston and Chris Young
May 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how metrics can help your software team answer questions like “How fast are we going? What should we do next? Where’s the bottleneck?” Deliver software more effectively with greater certainty.
I’m Ash Winter, a consulting tester and conference speaker, working as an independent consultant providing testing, performance engineering, and automation of both build and test. I have been a team member delivering mobile apps and web services for start ups and a leader of teams and change for testing consultancies and their clients. I spends most of his time helping teams think about testing problems, asking questions and coaching when invited. I am most proud of being a co-organiser for the Leeds Testing Atelier, a free full day community testing workshop. Its mission is to give those involved in testing a platform to share their stories, particularly those who haven’t been heard before.
Twitter: @northern_tester
LinkedIn: Ash Winter
By Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
November 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-67-9
Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
I’m Rob Meaney, I have a degree in electrical & electronic engineering. I came to work in the software industry soon after finishing college and began working as a tester without even knowing what stating was. I learned my trade testing desktop applications for manufacturing safety automation industry. Soon I got bored of manually checking the same thing over and over to I decided to try automating some of my tests. Since then I have worked in the start-ups, gaming, data storage, medical, fraud detection and communication companies building test and automation frameworks. I’ve worked as a manual tester, automation architect and test manager. I love testing and continuously read and learn about testing and development. From a personal perspective, I love to work hard and have fun doing it. I’m always up for a bit of messing but I take my job very seriously.
Twitter: @RobMeaney
LinkedIn: Robert Meaney
By Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
November 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-67-9
Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
By Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
November 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-67-9
Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
By Manuel Pais and Chris O’Dell
Date: TBC
ISBN 978-1-912058-59-4
Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.
Manuel Pais is an independent DevOps and Delivery Consultant, focused on teams and flow. With a diverse experience including development, build management, testing and QA, Manuel has helped large organizations in finance, legal, and manufacturing adopt test automation and continuous delivery, as well as understand DevOps from both technical and human perspectives.
Manuel is co-author of the Team Guide to Software Releasability book and lead editor for the remaining books in the Team Guide series.
Twitter: @manupaisable
LinkedIn: Manuel Pais
By Manuel Pais and Chris O’Dell
Date: TBC
ISBN 978-1-912058-59-4
Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.
Chris has been developing software with Microsoft technologies for nearly fourteen years. She currently works at Monzo helping to build the future of banking. She has led teams delivering highly available Web APIs, distributed systems and cloud based services. She has also led teams developing internal build and deployment tooling using the unconventional mix of .Net codebases onto AWS infrastructure. Chris promotes practices we know as Continuous Delivery, including TDD, version control, and Continuous Integration.
Twitter: @ChrisAnnODell
LinkedIn: christineodell
By Manuel Pais and Chris O’Dell
Date: TBC
ISBN 978-1-912058-59-4
Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.
Chris has been a computerist since age 12 when he was introduced to the magic of the Commodore PET. He works with engineering and management teams with the aim of getting the best results possible for all involved. The role and value of metrics in this came from discovering the Lean/Kanban community around 2010 which got him measuring things in earnest. He is an active member of the Lean/Agile/DevOps community speaking at Meet Ups and conferences across Europe including GOTO Berlin, Agile Cambridge, CukeUp and QCon.
Twitter: @worldofchris
LinkedIn: worldofchris
By Mattia Battiston and Chris Young
May 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how metrics can help your software team answer questions like “How fast are we going? What should we do next? Where’s the bottleneck?” Deliver software more effectively with greater certainty.
Alex Moore
Alex is a DevOps Strategy Consultant at BJSS. She is a keen promoter of all things DevOps and Operability. She has a background in systems engineering, IT and software support, mainly in the Financial Services sector.
She is passionate about collaboration and can often be found at Tech Community events such as Leeds DevOps, Leeds Test Atelier and DevOpsDays.
When she occasionally stops talking about DevOps, she loves to get her car out on the track or listen to live music.
Twitter: @smileandeliver
LinkedIn: Alex Moore
By Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore, and Rob Thatcher
July 2019
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
This guide provides a set of hands-on practices based on real-world, tried-and-tested experience across multiple organizations for teams to adopt (and adapt) in order to promote and enhance software operability.
Rob Thatcher has substantial experience helping organisations to build effective technical operations, support, and delivery teams, and design and operate effective IT architectures. With Director-level experience in the financial services sector, his focus now on building teams through mentoring and coaching with a pragmatic approach to help people build confidence, knowledge and capabilities.
Twitter: @robtthatcher
LinkedIn: Rob Thatcher
By Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore, and Rob Thatcher
July 2019
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
This guide provides a set of hands-on practices based on real-world, tried-and-tested experience across multiple organizations for teams to adopt (and adapt) in order to promote and enhance software operability.
