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Mar 21, 2023
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 2 E3: Jamie Dobson
Nick and Chris talk to Jamie Dobson.
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Feb 13, 2023
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 2 E2: Andy Ellis
Nick and Chris talk to Andy Ellis about using the right language with the business, and supporting how they manage risk.
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Jan 15, 2023
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 2 E1: Krysztof (Chris) Daniel on Strategy and Wardley Maps
Chris and Nick chat to Krysztof (Chris) Daniel about Strategy and Wardley Maps
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Aug 7, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E12: Yosef Lehrman on the Executive Order
Yosef Lehrman talks to Nick and Chris about the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
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Jun 20, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E11: Allan Friedman and SBOMs
Allan Friedman of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has long been one of the world's leading proponents of Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM. With the President's Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, SBOM has begun to receive the wider attention it deserves, and Allan joins Chris and Nick to discuss SBOM and how it can help with tech debt burndown.
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Jun 12, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E10: Eoin Woods
Eoin Woods has developed quite a bit of software, and created and dealt with quite a lot of technical debt. He is CTO at Endava, and co-author of two software architecture books. On the Tech Debt Burndown he joins Chris and Nick to talk about his role in the International Conference on Technical Debt and some of the research highlighted in the virtual 2021 edition of that conference, as well as his own personal experiences in the field.
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May 30, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E9: Charity Majors
Charity Majors joins Nick and Chris to discuss the difference between observability and metrics, some great insights into good debt (like college loans) versus bad debt (like charging stuff we want on a credit card), and thoughts on efficiency.
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May 29, 2021
Break From Burndown: The Memorial Day Spring Bank Holiday Break
With the US closed for Memorial Day weekend, and the UK closed for Spring Bank Holiday, we're firing up the grills, and pausing to reflect. In the next few episodes, we'll discuss toil and build times with Charity Majors, Tech Debt burndown strategies with Eoin Woods, the Biden Executive Order with Yosef Lehrman, SBOMs with Allan Friedman, and much, much more!
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May 23, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E8: The Six Ways
On this episode, Chris and Nick are joined by Olivier Jacques, DevOps transformation principal at DXC Technology, who discusses his article, Six Strategies to Set Time Aside to Improve. The six approaches capture some very insightful observations into technical debt burndown.
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May 15, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E7: Enabling and Regulating
Chris and Nick welcome Kenn White, from MongoDB, to discuss Mongo's enabling teams and how they cut through the BS to help engineers stay in the flow and be happier. Then they welcome Bill Pelletier, to talk about some of the unique challenges faced by medical device and Software as a Medical Device makers.
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May 8, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E6: The Flow
Lots of things get improved by building continuous delivery pipelines and then going back to them and iteratively making improvements. Pipelines themselves can be a place where we accrue tech debt - even at the entry point to those pipelines. So let's look at branching strategies.
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May 2, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 1 E5: The Metrics
How do you measure technical debt? This week, Chris and Nick discuss the metrics around technical debt, and why there are so few of them.
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Apr 24, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Series 1 E4: Wendy Nather on What Works in Security
When Wendy Nather began work as an information security analyst, she started asking her CISO friends a question: 'If you just took a CISO job at a company that had no security, what would you buy?' The answers fascinated her. Now at Duo (Cisco), she set out to formalize research that was released as Cisco Secure’s Security Outcomes Study. Wendy discusses the process on this week's podcast.
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Apr 18, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Series 1 E3: Supply Chain Vulnerability & Tech Debt
We've been hearing about Supply Chain vulnerabilities quite a bit lately, from Solar Winds to CodeCov. How do these relate to technical debt? Ah, that's a complicated question, because each of its components are discussing complex things. In this episode, Chris and Nick try to hash it out and sort through what's important.
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Apr 11, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Series 1 Episode 2: Ian Amit
Episode 2: Ian Amit of Cimpress
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Apr 11, 2021
Tech Debt Burndown Series 1 E1: What Is Tech Debt?
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