Episode 42: Governance vs developer freedom: The balancing act With Anders Wallgren

For tech leaders heavily involved in the software development and deployment processes, ranging from embedded software to more user-facing applications, you'll love this. Anders Wallgren, the Vice President of Technology Strategy at CloudBees joined us to share a few things. Nope! Correction. Shared LOADS of things about the benefit and importance of having a smooth end-to-end development process. Being a software developer in the past (I'm a geek that managed to de-geek), I know the pains and benefits of getting this right. The investment in automation and auditing-as-you-go saves many headaches and Kerr-chings (money) over and over again. The system that Anders and CloudBees have created is just awesome. Especially for high compliance industries. Key takeaways from the podcast are: • How automation can become your implicit auditing • How tech leaders can enable companies to balance governance and developer freedom with a win/win scenario • The benefits of taking two steps back to make huge leaps forward in the efficiency of your value delivery Our Guest: Anders Wallgren LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderswallgren/ Website: https://www.cloudbees.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anders_wallgren Intro and background music: Craig MacArthur - Power Shutoff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74iB_jtauw)