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The AI DevOps Podcast is a show for those shipping software using AI, .NET, Azure, and DevOps. Each show brings you hard-hitting interviews with industry experts, innovating better methods, and sharing success stories. Sponsoring the podcast is Clear Measure, a software architecture and engineering firm that implements AI to empower software teams to establish quality, achieve stability, and increase speed. Hosted by CTO & Chairman, Jeffrey Palermo.

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October 12, 2026Episode 42349 min

Daniel Vacanti: What's AI Done To Agile - Episode 423

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.

October 5, 2026Episode 42229 min

Sam Nasr: AI Transformation - Episode 422

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.

September 28, 2026Episode 42140 min

Mark Michaelis: Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow - Episode 421

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 - mark@IntelliTect.com Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

September 21, 202638 min

Justin Martin: Commanding Fleets of AI Agents - Episode 420

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.

September 14, 2026Episode 38752 min

Uncle Bob Martin: AI Driven Development - Episode 419

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.

September 7, 2026Episode 41818 min

Jeffrey Palermo: AI-Driven Software Projects - Episode 418

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August 31, 2026Episode 41742 min

Joseph Guadagno: Architecture for AI Development - Episode 417

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Joseph Guadagno is an experienced executive level software leader and architect over 30 years of software development experience and a Microsoft MVP since 2007, having also served as President of the .NET Foundation from 2023 to 2024. he blogs regularly about .NET, Azure, and AI-assisted development workflows. This will be Joseph's second appearance on the podcast - he previously joined me in 2021 to talk about the latest in Azure DevOps. You can find more about Joseph and his work at josephguadagno.net. Website - https://www.josephguadagno.net/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephguadagno/ Github - https://github.com/jguadagno X Link - https://x.com/jguadagno Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 159 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/joe-guadagno-on-the-latest-in-azure-devops-episode-159 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

August 24, 2026Episode 41648 min

Anna Hoffman: AI Database Development - Episode 416

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Anna Hoffman is a Principal Group Product Manager for Azure Data on Microsoft's SQL Engineering team, where she works across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric. She is also the host of Data Exposed, Microsoft's video series covering the data platform. Anna holds an engineering degree from Georgia Tech along with a master's degree in data science, and started her career as a data and applied scientist before moving into product management. She continues to blog regularly for the Azure SQL Devs' Corner. You can find her on GitHub and on X at @AnalyticAnna. Anna's Devblogs - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/author/antho/ Anna's Github - https://github.com/amthomas46 X Account - https://x.com/analyticanna LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amthomas46/ What's New Across Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server Blog Author Page Azure SQL Devs' Corner Author Page Data Exposed (YouTube playlist, 500 episodes) Azure SQL YouTube channel "The Era of the Agentic Database Developer" (Build 2026 recap) "What's new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far" (mid-year recap) MSSQL extension roadmap - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-mssql/wiki/roadmap GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS - https://learn.microsoft.com/ssms/github-copilot/agent-mode Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 160 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/azure-sql-database-with-anna-hoffman-episode-160 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

August 17, 202649 min

Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - Episode 415

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Mark Seemann is a self-employed programmer and software architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the author of Code That Fits in Your Head and Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns. He is widely known throughout the .NET community for his ploeh blog, which he has maintained for years, writing about software architecture, test-driven development, and functional programming. He shares his work and insights on GitHub and X as @ploeh, and can also be found on LinkedIn. Mark previously joined the show for Episode 189, "Code That Fits In Your Head." Ploeh - https://blog.ploeh.dk/ Guthub Ploeh - https://github.com/ploeh X Ploeh - https://x.com/ploeh LinkedIn Ploeh - https://dk.linkedin.com/in/ploeh The AI Code Quality Maintainability Gap - https://www.gitclear.com/the_ai_code_quality_maintainability_gap Sam Harris Podcast - https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/487-is-ai-already-conscious Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 189 - http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/mark-seemann-code-that-fits-in-your-head-episode-189 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

August 10, 2026Episode 41442 min

Jimmy Bogard: AI-Driven Development - Episode 414

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today's guest is a true heavyweight in the .NET open-source world — someone whose work has quietly, but profoundly, shaped the way countless developers build software. Jimmy Bogard is the creator and maintainer of two very popular OSS libraries in the .NET ecosystem: AutoMapper and MediatR. If you've ever tried to simplify object mapping or decouple application logic, chances are you've used his tools. Based in Austin, Texas, Jimmy is an independent software consultant and a 15+ year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award — every year since 2009. AutoMapper alone has been around for 17 years and racked up hundreds of millions of downloads. It started as a personal tool to streamline development for client projects and grew into a global standard for object mapping. Github eShop - https://github.com/jbogard/eShop Jimmy's Github - https://github.com/jbogard AutoMapper Github - https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper/releases AutoMapper Nuget - https://www.nuget.org/packages/automapper/ MediatR Nuget - https://www.nuget.org/packages/MediatR MediatR Github - https://github.com/jbogard/MediatR/releases Jimmy's Website - https://www.jimmybogard.com/ Jimmy's Website / AutoMapper - https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-licensing-update/ Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 356 Episode 264 Episode 98 Episode 11 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.