Jonny Williams works at Red Hat as an agile Delivery Lead, and he joins Tiny DevOps to cut through the confusion surrounding "Delivery Management".

In this episode...

• What is "Delivery Management"?
• The discipline vs the role
• Comparisons to Product Management, Agile, Lean, Scrum, ITIL, and ITSM
• History of Delivery Management
• How does Delivery Management fit into "Agile"?
• Where is Delivery Management most popular?
• How can you start benefiting from the Delivery Management discipline in your organization?
• How to get started as a Delivery Manager
• Who should avoid Delivery Management

Guest
Jonny Williams, Agile Delivery Lead at Red Hat
Web site: https://delivervalue.uk/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonny-williams-83433836/

Resources
Book: Delivery Management: Enabling Teams to Deliver Value

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Gorjan Jovanoski is the co-founder of AirCare, the mobile app that helps you know what you breathe. He joins me to tell the story of founding AirCare, and share some of the surprises, good and bad, along the way.

In this episode...

• What is AirCare, and what does it do for you?
• What is its business model?
• AirCare's origin story
• AirCare's tech stack: Flutter, PHP, MongoDB, DigitalOcian
• Request volume and seasonality
• How to aggregate 35,000 data sources in PHP
• Detecting and responding to a DoS attack
• The software development cycle at AirCare
• Observability at AirCare
• Scaling challenges along the way
• Next steps and objectives

Guest
Gorjan Jovanoski
AirCare web site

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Oshri Cohen is a fractional CTO with a diverse background, currently working with four companies. He joins me on the show to cut through some of the confusion surrounding the Chief Technical Officer role.

In this episode:

• The four phases of the CTO role
• How often can the same person satisfy the needs of all four phases? (Spoiler: Very rarely)
• How often can a founding CTO succeed in all four phases?
• A good CTO focuses on his or her strengths, and hires out the rest
• What lead Oshri to start as a fCTO
• Why many, perhaps most, early-stage startups don't need a full-time CTO
• Why a development agency is like a mischievous genie
• Why developers love working with a fCTO
• What could you do with the 150k you'd save by hiring a fCTO instead of a full-time CTO?
• Tips for becoming an fCTO yourself

Guest
Oshri Cohen
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oshricohen/
Website: oshricohen.me

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