Shipping Excellence

Welcome to Shipping Excellence, where action meets expertise. Hosted by Andrew Duncan, this podcast is all about building exceptional software products that don’t just exist—they deliver impact. With a no-nonsense, ‘get stuff done’ mentality, we break down the tools, strategies, and processes you need to turn ideas into results. Join us for high-value conversations on innovation, execution, and results.

Shipping Excellence is a technology podcast hosted by Andrew Duncan, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Andrew Duncan hosts Shipping Excellence, a technology show with 15 episodes published.

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  Engineering Is Back

  Jun 3, 202649 minS0

  <p>Coding is figured out. Engineering is back. That's the shift, and it's already showing up in who excels and who gets stuck.</p> <p>Carrick Carpenter, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Aditi Consulting, sits down with Andrew Duncan for a peer conversation about what actually changes inside a services firm when AI rewires the delivery model. Aditi runs 2,000+ employees, 70+ Fortune 500 clients, three continents. Andrew runs Vertice Labs at the boutique end. Same tension, different scale.</p> <p>They go past "AI-native" positioning into the mechanics: why roles are collapsing, what a 90-pull-request engineer looks like in practice, why...

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  SaaS Isn't Dead. The Moat Just Moved.

  Apr 17, 202648 minS0

  <p>SaaS isn't dead. UI is. The moat just moved.</p> <p>Assaf Weinberg (Co-Founder & CEO, SetSale) joins Andrew Duncan to dismantle the LinkedIn narratives about software in the age of AI: "code is free," "SaaS is dead," and the founder myth that hiring a developer is the bottleneck.</p> <p> </p> <p>Chapters</p> 00:00 The biggest limit on AI is what you believe it can do 01:23 Building SetSale before AI tools existed 04:31 Supastarter and the portal boilerplate origin 06:47 Why the cost of software isn't zero 07:43 The "I just need a developer" myth 11:09 Every software company is a data transformation...

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  No one cares about AI. They care about results.

  Mar 19, 202650 minS0

  <p>AI doesn't fix your broken processes. It amplifies them.</p><p>Jason Macht (Whitespace Solutions) joins Andrew Duncan to break down what actually changes — and what doesn't — when you build with AI.</p><p></p><p>Chapters</p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>00:40 Guest introduction</p><p>02:51 Vibe coding vs. engineering rigor</p><p>04:02 AI as amplifier — good and bad processes</p><p>04:39 Spec-driven development</p><p>06:57 The death of traditional agile</p><p>09:35 Agentic systems and guardrails</p><p>15:27 New business viability — the solopreneur opportunity</p><p>32:09 AI as thought partner and echo chamber risks</p><p>49:45 Closing</p><p></p><p...

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  Episode #12

  The Real Competitive Advantage in an AI World (It’s Not Tech)

  Feb 20, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>In this episode of Shipping Excellence, Andrew Duncan sits down with Christopher Garvis (former AWS manager, worked on CDK) to unpack a core reality of the AI era:</p><p>AI makes speed cheap, judgment priceless.</p><p>They start with the practical: how experienced builders are using AI day to day, why “skills” (constrained context + tools) are emerging as the next standard beyond agents, and what happens when heavy integrations like MCP feel slow or token expensive.</p><p>From there, the conversation shifts to the business implications. If AI compresses the time to ship, teams hit decision poin...

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  Episode #11

  Why Most Software Vendors Fail Operators — And What Good Actually Looks Like

  Feb 4, 202636 minS0

  <p>Most software projects drift — scope grows, timelines slip, and clients spend more time managing the vendor than shipping product. Robert Randolph, CEO of Executive Linguist Agency, hired Vertice Labs to build two apps. Both shipped on time. Both on budget. Here's what made it different.</p><p>Robert runs a professional language services firm with a remote team of interpreters. He needed a HIPAA-compliant messaging platform and an internal iOS app — and he needed them fast. The experience became a useful lens on what actually makes software partnerships work: not charisma, not promises, just execution, clarity, and trust.</p><p><...

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