SPEAKER
Bryan Finster
Principal Architect
Bryan Finster is a software engineer with three decades of experience building and operating mission-critical systems for global enterprises. I help organizations modernize legacy applications, implement secure software delivery, and enable teams to deliver software safely, quickly, and without drama. I'm the maintainer of MinimumCD.org
Upcoming sessions
See complete program4 November
1:55 PM · 30 min
Your Software Factory Already Has a Name: Continuous Delivery
More organizations are attempting to build a software factory. Most are building the assembly line and ignoring what feeds it.
In 2014, my team at Walmart went from quarterly releases to 5+ deliveries a day by asking one question, "Why can't we deliver today's work today?" and fixing every answer.
In 2025, I hit the same walls with coding agents: vague requirements, review bottlenecks, and no shared definition of "good" all resulted in rework and delayed delivery. I found that the same principles that fixed it for people also worked for agents.
This talk maps Continuous Delivery onto the agentic software factory and the principles and critical practices that drive good outcomes. We'll also cover what I'm learning introducing this inside an enterprise and why software delivery is still a people problem.
If your plan is "add agents, go faster," come find out why that produces garbage faster, and what to fix first.