Software benefits from both an agile and lean approach. The software binary is agile-created and the path to production is lean, as the build, test, deploy process should run repetitively and with a high degree of automation many times a day. Periodically there will be step-change agile experimentation in the path to production and then back into

The key to pursuing speed and adaptability at the same time is to view software technology as a continuously evolving asset, instead of something that is built once and then maintained.

High-performing IT organizations are able to achieve both high throughput, measured in terms of change lead time and deployment frequency, and high stability, measured as the time to restore service after an outage or an event that caused degraded quality of service. High-performing IT organizations also have 50% lower change fail rates than