How can we deliver faster and with higher quality?
Everything related to shipping, DevOps, Infrastructure, etc informing my thinking on how to build better software delivery at Operations1
How can we deliver faster and with higher quality?
Minimum Viable CD
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Found on the Tiny DevOps podcast
A release (the changes that get deployed) will typically consist of multiple version control commits, unless the organization has achieved a single-piece flow where each commit can be released to production (a practice known as continuous deployment).
Nicole Forsgren PhD • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
The Difference Between Continuous Delivery & Continuous Deployment
youtube.comA stream-aligned team aims to produce a steady flow of feature delivery. A stream-aligned team is quick to course correct based on feedback from the latest changes. A stream-aligned team uses an experimental approach to product evolution, expecting to constantly learn and adapt. A stream-aligned team has minimal (ideally zero) hand-offs of work to
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“Continuous delivery” means that you work so your software is always releasable.
“Continuous deployment” means that if your deployment pipeline passes, the change is automatically pushed to production.
Continuous deployment is a subset of continuous delivery.
“Continuous deployment” means that if your deployment pipeline passes, the change is automatically pushed to production.
Continuous deployment is a subset of continuous delivery.
Frequent Questions
“...the real trade-off, over long periods of time, is between better software faster and worse software slower. ” —Farley, D. (2021). Modern Software Engineering: Doing what works to build better software faster (p. 154). Addison-Wesley.
Nathen Harvey • DORA | DORA’s software delivery metrics: the four keys
Our research shows that Lean management, along with a set of other technical practices known collectively as continuous delivery (Humble and Farley 2010), do in fact impact culture, as shown in Figure 3.3. Figure 3.3: Westrum Organizational Culture’s Drivers You can act your way to a better culture by implementing these practices in technology orga
... See moreNicole Forsgren PhD • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
A “deployment” is the technical act of copying software to a host environment and getting it ready for use.
A “release” makes a new feature available to users.
A “release” makes a new feature available to users.