Preparing for Enterprise Continuous Delivery: Five Critical Steps
The ability to quickly and reliably deliver new, high-quality features to customers has become a standard business requirement across industries. Development, IT, and DevOps organizations are looking to Continuous Delivery (CD) to meet this need. However, introducing CD into an existing enterprise poses a number of challenges. The vision and principles of CD are well known and articulated, but practical guidance and concrete recommendations based on actual experience are difficult to find. Andrew Phillips shares five important prerequisites and recommendations for enterprise CD implementations, including complete delivery artifacts, scalable capacity, “side effect” overview, integration with release control, and more. Leave with a number of practical action items—such as a pipeline stage checklist and automation catalog—for your own preparation and implementation. Take back ideas to help you build your own CD Maturity Model to track and measure your implementation’s success.