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Bob Walker
Field CTO at Octopus Deploy and co-host of the Continuous Delivery Office Hours podcast
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Oct 12, 2026
CD Office Hours Ep.14. Raising the bar on software delivery
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1:13Tony KellyHOST
Is version control the only fixed practice, or should we be setting the bar higher?
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1:22Bob WalkerGUEST
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.
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1:28Bob WalkerGUEST
[laughs] No, we want, we definitely wanna set the bi- bar higher than just version control at this day and age.
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1:37Bob WalkerGUEST
Um, there are practices that are out there that have been established that we just know that, that we know that they work.
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1:43Bob WalkerGUEST
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.
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Steve FentonGUEST
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."