Author
Bryan Finster
Value Stream Architect, Defense Unicorns
Bryan Finster is an experienced value stream architect, technical lead, product owner, and passionate advocate for organizational improvement required to optimize the flow of delivery. With over two decades of experience developing enterprise supply chain solutions, he applies lean supply chain thinking to the problem of software delivery to minimize costs and maximize delivered quality. He is a practitioner and mentor of continuous delivery practices and DevOps principles who uses data-driven approaches to optimize the flow of value, improve business outcomes, and improve the lives of software engineers.
Newest · 2023
Platform as a Product
This paper discusses the importance of treating internal developer platforms as products and focusing on providing an excellent developer experience to drive adoption and improve software delivery across an organization.
Free · Creative Commons
In the library · 4
Track record
Publications, talks, and the roles they came out of — one thread, newest first.
Guidance paperPlatform as a Product
Guidance paperHow to Misuse & Abuse DORA Metrics
TalkSpoke at Las Vegas 2022 and Virtual US 2022
Guidance paperAn Integrated Approach to Enterprise Improvement
Guidance paperThe DevOps Enterprise Journal - Spring 2021
TalkHow to Misuse and Abuse DORA Metrics
TalkSpoke at London 2020 and Las Vegas 2020
TalkThe DOJO Consortium
TalkScaling Continuous Delivery to Walmart
TalkContinuous Delivery: Solving the Talent Problem
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