Jeffrey Palermo: AI-Driven Software Projects - Episode 418

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today's guest is Chris Harbert, founder and CEO of Testery, a test orchestration platform that runs Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium suites in parallel and gates deployments with evidence from every run. Chris got into test automation nearly 20 years ago as a developer practicing TDD at an early Agile adopter, and today he speaks internationally on DevOps, test automation, and AI at conferences like TestCon Europe, STAREAST, and KCDC. He also hosts the Developers Who Test podcast, where recent episodes have covered testing RAG systems and the DORA AI Capabilities Model. Lately he has been writing about what AI coding agents mean for quality, including his post "Is AI Silently Disappearing Your Features?" and "The Design Pattern AI Companies Don't Want You to Know," published June 15, 2026. Testery Website - https://testery.com/ Testery Blog - https://blog.testery.io/ Developers Who Test - https://www.developerswhotest.com/ Chris' Website - https://chrisharbert.com/speaking Sessionize - https://sessionize.com/chrisharbert LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherharbert/ X Account - https://x.com/ChrisHarbert Design Pattern Ai Companies Don't Want You To Know - https://blog.testery.io/the-design-pattern-ai-companies-dont-want-you-to-know/ Is AI Silently Disappearing Your Features - https://blog.testery.io/is-ai-silently-disappearing-your-features/ Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Derek Comartin is a senior software developer and Microsoft MVP with 20 years of experience building software across industries including consumer goods, distribution, transportation, manufacturing, and accounting. He is the creator of CodeOpinion, a YouTube channel and blog where he explores software architecture and design topics such as domain-driven design, event sourcing, and decoupling systems; his most recent post, "Decoupling in Software Architecture Moves Complexity," published August 6, 2026, examines how backend processes are affected as systems become more distributed. Derek shares his insights daily on X as @codeopinion and maintains an active GitHub profile with over 100 repositories, including his popular DDD-CQRS-ES-Example project. This will be his third appearance on the podcast, previously joining to discuss migrating to .NET Core and the mindset of a software architect. You can find more about Derek and his work at codeopinion.com. Code Opinion Website - https://codeopinion.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcomartin/ Github - https://github.com/dcomartin X Account - https://x.com/codeopinion Previous episodes with Derek Comartin: Episode 104 Episode 188 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Henrik Kniberg is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Abundly AI in Stockholm, where he leads development of a platform for building autonomous AI agents. Many of us know him from his agile work: he wrote "Scrum and XP from the Trenches," "Kanban and Scrum: Making the Most of Both," and "Lean from the Trenches," coached at Spotify and LEGO, and created the "Spotify Engineering Culture" videos and the well-known skateboard MVP drawing. More recently, his book and video "Generative AI in a Nutshell" have reached millions of people, with the book translated into 31 languages. Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hkniberg/ X Account - https://x.com/henrikkniberg Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/henrikkniberg Github - https://github.com/hkniberg Abundly - https://www.abundly.ai/team/henrik-kniberg Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Greg Leonardo is a Certified Azure Solution Architect, and Microsoft Certified Trainer, and the founder of Webonology, a firm focused on cloud migration and modernization, cloud security, solution architecture, and cloud training. He's received many MVP awards from Microsoft over the years. He is the author of "Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way," and he writes regularly about Azure, AI, and cloud security on his Cloud Daily Wire blog, including posts on governing, securing, and scaling autonomous AI agents on Azure. Greg is also a Gulf War veteran and a leader of the TampaDev community in the Tampa Bay area. He is one of our most frequent guests, and I'm glad to have him back on the show. Website - https://gregleonardo.com/ Webonology - https://webonology.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregleonardo/ Twitter Account - https://twitter.com/gleonardo Github CloudSpecOps - https://github.com/CloudSpecOps Previous episodes with Greg Leonardo: Episode 10 Episode 19  Episode 27  Episode 65  Episode 91  Episode 205  Episode 250  Episode 282  Episode 326  Episode 369 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Daniel Vacanti is co-founder of ProKanban.org and a 20-year veteran of the Lean and Agile software industry who helped develop the Kanban Method in 2007 and managed its first project implementation. He also co-founded ActionableAgile in 2013, building predictive analytics tools that help teams forecast delivery and manage risk using flow metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and work in progress. Daniel has authored several books on the subject, including Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: Tenth Anniversary Edition and the recently released Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II He also teaches lean principles for software management at UC Berkeley and is a certified trainer across ProKanban.org's full course catalog. This is Daniel's third appearance on the show LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielvacanti/ X Account - https://x.com/danvacanti Lean Pub - https://leanpub.com/u/daniel_vacanti Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II - https://leanpub.com/actionableagilemetricsii Drunk Agile - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC758reHaPAeEixmCjWIbsOA ProKanban Community Day - https://prokanban.org/kanban-community-event Previous episodes with Daniel Vacanti: Episode 103 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/daniel-vacanti-on-actionableagile-episode-103 Episode 199 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/daniel-vacanti-measuring-agile-software-teams-episode-199 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Sam Nasr is a Senior Software Engineer and Trainer at NIS Technologies in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in the Microsoft AI stack, Azure, and .NET development. A software developer since 1995, Sam is an 8-time Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer who leads the Cleveland C# User Group, the .NET Study Group, and the Azure Cleveland User Group. He shares his expertise as a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and through his LinkedIn Learning courses, and he blogs regularly at samnasr.blogspot.com, This will be his third appearance on the podcast, having previously joined me to discuss SQL Server for developers. Sam's Blog - https://samnasr.blogspot.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsnasr/ Github - https://github.com/samnasr X Account - https://x.com/samnasr Upcoming Event - https://www.meetup.com/caparea-net/events/316713608 Linktree - linktree.com/samnasr Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 122 -  https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/sam-nasr-on-sql-server-for-developers-episode-122 Episode 185 - https://aidevopspodcast.clearmeasure.com/sam-nasr-on-azure-ai-ml-episode-185   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today I'm joined by Mark Michaelis, founder, CEO and Chief Technical Architect of IntelliTect in Spokane, Washington, and a Microsoft Regional Director and C# MVP for more than twenty-five years. Mark is the lead author of the Essential C# book series and the free companion site essentialcsharp.com, and he's continued that work as a member of Microsoft's design review teams for C#, Azure, and Azure DevOps, and as an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University. He's been on the conference circuit recently with talks like "Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow" and "AI Axioms: Principles for Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," bringing his deep C# background to bear on how developers work with AI day to day. You can find him on GitHub as markmichaelis and connect with him on LinkedIn. This is Mark's first time on the show, and I'm excited to get his perspective on where AI-assisted development is headed. Intellitect Website - https://intellitect.com/team/mark-michaelis/ Essential CSharp - https://essentialcsharp.com/ Github - https://github.com/markmichaelis EssentialCSharp Github - https://github.com/IntelliTect/EssentialCSharp LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmichaelis/ Email - [email protected] Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today I'm joined by Justin Martin, a product-focused engineering leader based in Austin, Texas, with more than twenty years of experience driving technical innovation at startups and high-growth tech companies, from Groupon-era Rails to fraud prevention for banks. He is now commanding fleets of AI agents from a single post. He is currently the Head of Engineering at 6Lock. Github - https://github.com/LupusDei X Account - https://twitter.com/LupusDei18 Website - https://justinmmartin.me/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mythinking/ Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today I'm joined by Robert C. Martin, known to most of the industry as Uncle Bob - a programmer since 1970, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, and the first chairman of the Agile Alliance. He's the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC and has written many of the field's defining books, including Clean Code, Clean Architecture, Clean Agile, and his newest release, Functional Design. Lately he's been deep into a project called swarm-forge, an open-source tool he built for coordinating teams of AI coding agents through disciplined, tmux-based workflows, and he's been documenting his experiments running it on real projects on X. This is actually Robert's fourth time on the show - we've previously talked about Agile and Extreme Programming, about clean code, and about being a software leader - I'm looking forward to hearing how his thinking on AI and software programming has evolved. Clean Coder Website - https://cleancoder.com Uncle Bob Github - https://github.com/unclebob Swarm Forge Github - https://github.com/unclebob/swarm-forge X Account - https://x.com/unclebobmartin Clean Coder LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/cleancoder Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 105 Episode 283 Episode 357  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

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