Continuous Delivery

Making the Case

Why do we even need to make THIS case?

Business

Development Teams

What are we even talking about?

Continuous delivery is a series of practices designed to ensure that code can be rapidly and safely deployed to production by delivering every change to a production-like environment.

Ensuring business applications and services function as expected through rigorous automated testing.

Since every change is delivered to a staging environment using complete automation, you can have confidence the application can be deployed to production with a push of a button when the business is ready.

Increased speed of feedback

• Immediate feedback on code changes.
• Frequent releases let teams obtain user feedback more quickly.
• Faster feedback allows for experimentation.

Improved Productivity and Efficiency

• Less time spent setting up environments.
• Minutes on deployments rather than days.
• Time is saved on bugs created by the release process.
• Monotonous tasks are automated, which increases engagement.

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• Do The Math!

Improved Quality and Reliability

• Less stress means less mistakes.
• Encourages creation of safety nets.
• Smaller changes are lower risk.
• Fixes are fast AND secure.
• Same thing tested as deployed.
• Automated rollback.

Happier Customers and Stakeholders

• The customer doesn’t care how much code is checked in.
• Ability to deliver working software on demand.

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“The key test is that a business sponsor could request that the current development version of the software can be deployed into production at a moment's notice - and nobody would bat an eyelid, let alone panic.” - Martin Fowler

AND!

• This is actually true…
• https://continuousdelivery.com/evidence-case-studies/#research

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Why do we need to make ANY case?

Me

www.RebelAlliance.se

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Twitter: Zebra_003

Jeff@RebelAlliance.se

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