Steve Fenton
@stevefenton.co.uk
🧷 Software Punk
🐙 Swabbie / Octonaut at #OctopusDeploy
✂️ Yak Stylist
🔬 DORA Community Guide
🛡 Deputy Head Boy (BPCS)
🏆 Microsoft MVP
🔁 #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps
👟 #Agile #Lean and #PlatformEngineering
🧠 Opinions were implanted by smarter people
🐙 Swabbie / Octonaut at #OctopusDeploy
✂️ Yak Stylist
🔬 DORA Community Guide
🛡 Deputy Head Boy (BPCS)
🏆 Microsoft MVP
🔁 #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps
👟 #Agile #Lean and #PlatformEngineering
🧠 Opinions were implanted by smarter people
No punches were pulled in the writing of this article.
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
Process Theater vs. Technical Excellence: A Recurring Software Crisis
How to benefit from old knowledge without making old mistakes.
thenewstack.io
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No punches were pulled in the writing of this article.
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
"Putting it unkindly, the fall of all good methods is the result of managers fleeing in terror from things they don’t understand as well as they should."
Excited to share that my nomination, the State of AI-assisted Software Development, is a finalist for the 2025 #DevOpsDozenAwards! Your vote counts. Help choose the winners in 23 categories. Vote before New Year's Eve, at:
DevOps Dozen – The leaders, movers and shakers in DevOps
Announcing the 2025
DevOps Dozen Awards!
The DevOps Dozen awards are back for their tenth year and better than ever. We have reworked the awards program to reflect the trends and changes in our industry. There are two DevOps Dozen categories of awards totaling 24 awards:
Award Categories
Community
devopsdozen.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Excited to share that my nomination, the State of AI-assisted Software Development, is a finalist for the 2025 #DevOpsDozenAwards! Your vote counts. Help choose the winners in 23 categories. Vote before New Year's Eve, at:
Reposted by Steve Fenton
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Most now understand systems have constraints and that optimizing away from them won't improve value flow. The bigger revelation: it's okay for machines and people to run at less than 100% utilization; a departure from scientific management's labor-productivity trap.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Most now understand systems have constraints and that optimizing away from them won't improve value flow. The bigger revelation: it's okay for machines and people to run at less than 100% utilization; a departure from scientific management's labor-productivity trap.
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Reposted by Steve Fenton
I''m a finalist in the "Top #DevOps Community Evangelist" category of this year's DevOps Dozen awards hosted by @techstronggroup.bsky.social.
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I''m a finalist in the "Top #DevOps Community Evangelist" category of this year's DevOps Dozen awards hosted by @techstronggroup.bsky.social.
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
Congratulations to all of the finalists, very well deserved!
Voting is open now through the end of the year.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Doz...
Reposted by Steve Fenton
Reposted by Steve Fenton
The best horror comes from real life stories.
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
Chilling Deployment Tales: The Hallowed Tablet
In the chill embrace of the pre-election twilight, the monolithic warehouse, a brutalist testament to an age of digital iron and binary steam, loomed against the bruised sky. Within its vast, unyielding shell, no outward sign betrayed the delicate sinews of technology that thrummed unseen, a modern
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The best horror comes from real life stories.
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
Help me create more of these Chilling Deployment Tales by sharing your real-life stories. I'll write them up anonymously in the style of classic Gothic Tales.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #Deployments
You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know...
stevefenton.co.uk/bl...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
stevefenton.co.uk/bl...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
It may not be Picasso, but it is Brunel
A team using only Continuous Delivery will beat a team using only AI.
stevefenton.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know...
stevefenton.co.uk/bl...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
stevefenton.co.uk/bl...
#ContinuousDelivery #DevOps
Reposted by Steve Fenton
Amen.
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
Transformations never work. Even when they do.
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do
A fundamentally flawed approach to change
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Amen.
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
How many times I've witnessed the almost seasonal transformations in orgs, fixing the problems cause be the last one.
How many times I've seen orgs pendulum swing from one op model to another, once they realised what they lost (Chesterton's Fence)
Transformations never work. Even when they do.
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Why Transformations Never Succeed: Even When They Do
A fundamentally flawed approach to change
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Transformations never work. Even when they do.
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Find out why transformations are a fundamentally flawed approach to organizational change:
Reposted by Steve Fenton
Welcome to Bluesky @clfleming.bsky.social 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Welcome to Bluesky @clfleming.bsky.social 🎉
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Steve Fenton
Once you've embraced software development as an iterative, goal-seeking process, it makes most sense to optimise your development process for LEARNING.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Once you've embraced software development as an iterative, goal-seeking process, it makes most sense to optimise your development process for LEARNING.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
And that means optimising for FEEDBACK, and for ease of CHANGE.
It's the feedback loop that does the heavy lifting.
Dad, the robot is twerking in the kitchen again!
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Dad, the robot is twerking in the kitchen again!
This chart highlights one of the findings of the Platform Engineering Pulse report. It illustrates two key aspects: producer and consumer perspectives of platform success, and mandatory versus optional adoption strategies.
Notice anything mind-melting?
Notice anything mind-melting?
November 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This chart highlights one of the findings of the Platform Engineering Pulse report. It illustrates two key aspects: producer and consumer perspectives of platform success, and mandatory versus optional adoption strategies.
Notice anything mind-melting?
Notice anything mind-melting?
Reposted by Steve Fenton
InfoQ have placed Team Topologies adoption in the Early Majority segment for 2025: Team Topologies is now a mainstream approach.
What's holding back your organization from adopting Team Topologies patterns and techniques in late 2025?
www.infoq.com/articles/clo...
What's holding back your organization from adopting Team Topologies patterns and techniques in late 2025?
www.infoq.com/articles/clo...
InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report - 2025
This InfoQ Trends Report offers readers a comprehensive overview of emerging trends and technologies in the areas of Cloud and DevOps. This report summarizes the InfoQ editorial team’s and external…
www.infoq.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
InfoQ have placed Team Topologies adoption in the Early Majority segment for 2025: Team Topologies is now a mainstream approach.
What's holding back your organization from adopting Team Topologies patterns and techniques in late 2025?
www.infoq.com/articles/clo...
What's holding back your organization from adopting Team Topologies patterns and techniques in late 2025?
www.infoq.com/articles/clo...
Back for Halloween! Meanwhile in HeckOps No.1
Harry, lord of heck, is briefing the demons in the daily stand up...
#halloween #ai
Harry, lord of heck, is briefing the demons in the daily stand up...
#halloween #ai
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Back for Halloween! Meanwhile in HeckOps No.1
Harry, lord of heck, is briefing the demons in the daily stand up...
#halloween #ai
Harry, lord of heck, is briefing the demons in the daily stand up...
#halloween #ai
I knew some old folks who did frankly heroic things and when they got praised for it just looked confused and said, "it was the right thing to do." I feel like we're losing whatever that was. Our conviction in doing "the right thing to do" has been dangerously eroded.
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I knew some old folks who did frankly heroic things and when they got praised for it just looked confused and said, "it was the right thing to do." I feel like we're losing whatever that was. Our conviction in doing "the right thing to do" has been dangerously eroded.
Get your hands on the free Platform Engineering Pulse report! Discover how organizations align with our community's views on #PlatformEngineering standards.
Uncover insights like the producer/consumer gap, zero-metric illusion, and some unexpected adoption trends.
octopus.com/publicat...
Uncover insights like the producer/consumer gap, zero-metric illusion, and some unexpected adoption trends.
octopus.com/publicat...
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Get your hands on the free Platform Engineering Pulse report! Discover how organizations align with our community's views on #PlatformEngineering standards.
Uncover insights like the producer/consumer gap, zero-metric illusion, and some unexpected adoption trends.
octopus.com/publicat...
Uncover insights like the producer/consumer gap, zero-metric illusion, and some unexpected adoption trends.
octopus.com/publicat...
Thank you everyone who came to the DORA Community session.
Here's a follow-up linkfest!
The 2025 Report
dora.dev/dora-report...
Join our community
https://dora.community
My explainer on the DORA metrics
cd.foundation/blog/2...
Here's a follow-up linkfest!
The 2025 Report
dora.dev/dora-report...
Join our community
https://dora.community
My explainer on the DORA metrics
cd.foundation/blog/2...
DORA | State of AI-assisted Software Development 2025
DORA is a long running research program that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance. DORA helps teams apply those capabilities, leading to better organizational performance.
dora.dev
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thank you everyone who came to the DORA Community session.
Here's a follow-up linkfest!
The 2025 Report
dora.dev/dora-report...
Join our community
https://dora.community
My explainer on the DORA metrics
cd.foundation/blog/2...
Here's a follow-up linkfest!
The 2025 Report
dora.dev/dora-report...
Join our community
https://dora.community
My explainer on the DORA metrics
cd.foundation/blog/2...