DSO Overflow S4EP3

Paving the Road to Effective Software Development
with
Sarah Wells

In this month's episode, Jess and Glenn speak with Sarah Wells an independent tech consultant, author formerly the Technical Director for Engineering Enablement at the Financial Times to talk about how to balance developer autonomy with standardisation.

Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.

She spent over a decade at the Financial Times, leading as it transformed into a true cloud native organisation, releasing code 250 times as often and embracing autonomous empowered teams.

In this episode, Sarah shares her experience of transforming a software devlivery programme throgh balancing autonomy with standardisation. She discusses how she moved from monthly releases to multiple releases a day bringing focus, flow and joy to the organisation's engineering community.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

• Sarah's LinkedIn profile
• Enabling Microservice Success book
• Sarah's consultancy website

DSO Overflow is a DevSecOps London Gathering production. Find the audio version on all good podcast sources like Spotify, Apple Podcast and Buzzsprout.

This podcast is brought to you by our sponsors:  Prisma Cloud, Apiiro, and Sysdig

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Glenn Wilson linkedin.com/in/glennwilson
Jessica Cregg linkedin.com/in/jessicacregg

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