continuous delivery pipeline

Oct

31

2018

Do not Ignore Feature Development

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SAFe has a Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) wherein work flows through it starting from big idea/concept (or just work within the context of the team/program ... i.e. extra features to a product, technical debt, innovation work, etc.)... to it becoming something of value/cash. The elements of CDP are: 1) Continuous Exploration (CE)... this where features making up the product (MVP)/idea/program work are created and developed, 2) Continuous Integration (CI) ... this is where the stories -- prioritized and decomposed features are turned into stories -- are created, designed, built, and tested in two weeks iterations; 3) Continuous Deployment (CD) ...…

Continuous Delivery Pipeline — What a Beauty!

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I throw around the term 'Continuous Delivery Pipeline CDP)' all the time when continuous flow of value is the topic. This CDP concept and what it can do is specially valuable to Business Owners and Product Managers. Why? CDP -- a working CDP -- can be used by business owners and Product Managers for idea experimentation... Lean UX / lean startup activities... i.e idea - build - observe/measure - learn - pivot or persevere. Start with a small idea (MVP -- minimal viable product; or MMF -- minimal marketable feature) ... run it through the working CDP... then check the…

The Continuous Delivery Pipeline: The Pipeline that Keeps Giving

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In the movie, 'Kingdom of Heaven', the protagonist, Balian, inherited Ebelin, a large land -- from his father the lord of Ebelin who just passed away -- with villagers living on it. The land is arid. One day, Balian is concerned: his subjects are not having a sustained and abundant source of food. There is no constant source of water to have a lush of vegetation. One day, he had an idea: a water well ! He directed his subjects to dig a hole ... wide and deep enough for a water well. Dug they did... for days...until... They struck…