Bob Familiar's guest appearances

Bob Familiar

no dogma podcast

Technado

Technado (Audio)

The Woodshed Podcast Live from The Hearing Room

Marty Bakal

Joakim Sundberg

Joshua Crumbaugh

Robert Rounsavall

Adam Shamblin

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Michael Sachse

Vonne Smith

Rob Winchester

Daniela Perlmutter

Sandor Slijderink

Aaron Cockerill

John Morgan

James Stanger

Krishnan Venkata

OwlTail

Electronic Music and Modular Synth artist interview

The Woodshed Podcast 28 with Bob Familiar

In this episode of Technado, Peter and Don learn all about the Microsoft Technology Centers around the world. They’re joined by the director of the Boston center, Bob Familiar, who shares his technology journey and what makes the technology centers so unique.

The Technado, Episode 73: Microsoft's Bob Familiar

The Technado, Episode 73: Microsoft’s Bob Familiar

Summary Bob Familiar and I discuss how to bring the principles of lean engineering to the enterprise. Details About Bob and BlueMetal Inc; time at Microsoft; what is lean engineering, origins, just in time, small batches, failing fast, continuous improvement, applicability to software; batching and automation of the software process, continuous delivery, failing fast "common sense is hard to come by"; over lap with dev ops; build, measure and learn; principle of lean - "seeing the whole" vs "deciding as late as possible", comparison with Agile; leveraging cloud as part of lean; bring lean to large enterprises; changing behaviour instead of thinking, change in small steps, easier for an external party to bring change; patterns, micro-service architecture, deployment pipeline pattern, strangler pattern.

Summary Bob Familiar and I discuss how to bring the principles of lean engineering to the enterprise. Details About Bob and BlueMetal Inc; time at Microsoft; what is lean engineering, origins, just in time, small batches, failing fast, continuous improvement, applicability to software; batching and automation of the software process, continuous delivery, failing fast "common sense is hard to come by"; over lap with dev ops; build, measure and learn; principle of lean - "seeing the whole" vs "deciding as late as possible", comparison with Agile; leveraging cloud as part of lean; bring lean to large enterprises; changing behaviour instead of thinking, change in small steps, easier for an external party to bring change; patterns, micro-service architecture, deployment pipeline pattern, strangler pattern.

#24 Bob Familiar, Lean Engineering