Shrinking the Release Cycle

Samantha and Joe are talking in the server room about how software used to be shipped back in the day.

Shrinking the Release Cycle

Listen and choose the right answer

How often did Joe's team ship software back in the day?

• Once a week
• Once a year
• Every month

What device did Joe have to carry on his belt?

• A pager
• A smartphone
• A floppy disk

What is Samantha struggling to get used to?

• The noisy fans in the server room
• The slow dial-up internet connection
• The company's ridiculous approval process

Who actually invented the bureaucratic approval system?

• The CEO of the company
• Joe, as a joke in 1998
• Samantha's previous manager

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Samantha: Joe, I can't believe how loud the old ____ is today while we're checking this legacy monolith.
• Joe: Back in the day, this was the quietest place in our Austin office because we only had a few loud fans and a ____ connection.
• Samantha: You used to ____ software just once a year in those days, right?
• Joe: That's correct, we had a single annual release and every team spent months doing ____ before we could finally ship.
• Samantha: How did you survive without ____ sprints and automated pipelines?

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