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Bob Walker

Field CTO at Octopus Deploy and co-host of the Continuous Delivery Office Hours podcast

Oct 12, 2026

1:13
Is version control the only fixed practice, or should we be setting the bar higher?
1:20
Well, I think you kind of led the witness a bit there.
1:22
It's a bit like, uh, it's a bit like the lawyer who asks a question at trial where they already know the answer.
1:28
[laughs] No, we want, we definitely wanna set the bi- bar higher than just version control at this day and age.
1:35
I mean, that just has to be the case.
1:37
Um, there are practices that are out there that have been established that we just know that, that we know that they work.
1:43
Quite frankly, they've been around for 10, 15, 20 years at this point in time, if not longer than some practices I remember in previous episodes Steve and I have been talking about that go, date back to the, the, the '60s and '70s.

16 MINS LATER

18:01
So continuing the theme of feedback, who's got a good story about a team they worked on where the feedback zinged, it really worked? 'Cause I think that could be, like, a good inspiration here of, like, "Here's an example of it working really well."

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