Craig, Tony and honorary Revolutionist Pete Sellars are at YOW! Conference and sit down with Dave Farley, co-author of “Continuous Delivery” and they chat about the following

• There are anti-patterns with doing XP at scale, continuous delivery was born from the learnings from that
• Continuous delivery is just extending continuous integration to more of the software development practice (and continuous integration requires test driven development)
• Continuous delivery works because it is the application of the scientific method to software development
• If you work in an iterative, imperative, experimental way and you take continuous learning seriously and take cycle time as a serious measurement you will naturally drive out agile, lean, systems theory and DevOps
• YOW! 2016 presentation “The Rationale for Continuous Delivery“
• Most common two ways to introduce continuous delivery to your organisation – need to get cover from senior management to make change or you do it secretly at the grass roots – the fast feedback cycle is important (build feedback in about 5 minutes and ready and deployable in about an hour)
• DevOps is a terrible name – we are talking about collaborative cross functional teams and it is more than just developers and operations
• Continuous delivery is focused on shortening the feedback cycle from having an idea to getting the idea into the hands of users and figuring out what our users make of the idea – that’s software development, to do whatever it takes
• Continuous delivery is working in a way so that my software is always in a releasable state, continuous deployment is if all my automation says my software is in a working state I can just automatically push it to production
• We have data to show that continuous delivery makes high quality software faster, creates more money for the organisations that use it, reduces defect rates significantly and makes people working in that environment happier
• It changes the way you design, approach databases and the way you test
• Scott Ambler’s “Refactoring Databases” book
• Continuous Delivery tools still aren’t mature enough
• The deployment pipeline is a seriously strategic resource because it is your only route to Production – need to be able to version and test it like any other Production code
• It’s as much about the culture of the team than it is about the technology, it frees teams up to do experimentation

TheAgileRevolution-149 (40 minutes)