Alex SchwartzPlaces Backend Delivery Team

How we introduced Continuous Delivery?

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How we introduced Continuous Delivery?

Old Days:• Cycle time >35 days• 4-6 releases per year

Now – for a legacy app: Cycle time ca. 10 days

New App: PBAPI• 1-5 releases per week• 40 releases in prod in 5 month• Min cycle time 2 hours• Average cycle time ½ day

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Focus – Form a Team

Dev QA

Build Mgmt

Release Mgmt OPS

Do not underestimateConway’s Law.

Kanban/Lean

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Focus on the value stream

Main Metric:Release Cycle Time

Eat your Own Dog FoodYou understand the value of Continuous Delivery?

Use the same principle for your Improvement Process.

Baby Steps, Baby Steps, Baby Steps, Baby Steps….

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Automation

Automating the wrong thing to early is dangerous

“• Automate

everything you do twice.

• Automation will be your rescue.

Bullshit !

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AutomationClick-Button Deployments

Our Automation: Full E2E pipeline in one tool, from commit to prod (for Thor systems).

Further Topics …

QA

Pairing

TrustPeople

DevOps

Test Automation

TDD

ATD Acceptance Criteria

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