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Foreword
Agile practices are gaining inuence within diverse companies worldwide, yet not
without a cultural and technological tension between delivery teams and various
groups within their organizations.
This tension is partly born of a natural instinct to reject new ideas, but more
importantly due to a disbelief that these practices will live up to their claim of
delivering business value at a faster rate with better quality.
Although this book is not entirely focused on project management per se, it does lay
the foundation for the success of modern product development by creating the case
for Continuous Build, Integration, Delivery, and Deployment solutions.
Continuous practices help ensure that the software is being compiled and
tested properly and is always in a deployable state, not only on the developer's
workstation. Continuous integration will ensure that the different subsystems
function correctly according to the expectations set in code and by the business.
Continuous delivery ensures that the artefacts created in the previous steps can
be reused and deployed to higher environments to showcase the product to its
stakeholders, whereas continuous deployment pushes these artefacts to production
for quick assessment of a hypothesis.
Creating a delivery pipeline is at the core of our ability to develop business value
with a cadence that is desired by product owners. This is achieved thanks to
something we never had the luxury of having previously: the ability to fail fast
because we could not hope for anything better than being able to quickly test a
hypothesis by deploying it, assessing its impact, and reverting or pivoting when
misguided or misinformed about our market conditions.
Producing software in this manner cannot be achieved without automation. This
provides a safety net for developers as they adapt or refactor code; it scales the
regression test cases as the product evolves and grows and, perhaps as importantly,
describes and executes server provisioning, conguration, and the deployment of its
applications.
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