“Continuous Delivery” has become a catchy term over the years. The real way to make this real for your team is to focus on shortening all of the cycles before it. And then naturally, the delivery will become continuous too.
Years ago “Small Releases” meant monthly drops; then weekly, and today our goal is Continuous Delivery: releasing to production after each stable change.
Continuous delivery isn’t only about pushing more code more often. It’s about discipline and striving for clearer scope, faster feedback, and shrinking the design, review, test, and deployment cycles.
The team focuses on making tiny, verifiable changes and then letting the deployment pipeline do the heavy lifting.
Discussions for your team
- What are the benefits of releasing after every change instead of gated intervals?
- What is currently blocking faster releases?
- What kind of changes might be too dangerous release through continuous delivery?
- How can we detect and roll back quickly is there’s a problem?