Category: Continuous Delivery
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Tracking your Continuous Delivery progress
Shifting your organisation or teams towards Continuous Delivery is a challenge, there is a lot to discuss, plan, and implement. There are not only technical hurdles to get over but the mindset of the teams has to evolve with the new practices. With Continuous Delivery covering many different functions we can easily get lost on…
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Continuous Delivery proven to improve IT performance
All organisations strive for high-performing IT departments, it can be said the health of an organisation could be gauged by looking at their IT department alone. We see constant change programs devised and rolled out to tackle inefficiency with results that are often disappointing which need more changes! Unless changes are made based on relevant…
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Investigate before you begin Continuous Delivery
It was the PIPELINE conference last week and, as usual, it was a great day! I highly recommend this for anyone interested in Continuous Delivery (CD), there is value to get out of all the sessions. This year Dan North kicked it off with a entertaining and challenging keynote on Ops and Operability, but it…
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Is Git moving you away from Continuous Delivery?
I like Continuous Delivery (CD), as I’ve said before I believe it is the only way for organisations to keep up with their competitors, or ideally stay ahead of them! The rapidly changing world hasn’t got time to wait for updates; people want quality updates regularly. Gone are the days of 10 years ago where…
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Continuous Delivery visualizations
Here are some great visualizations on Continuous Delivery! I grabbed them from here, but they were done by Nhan Ngo at Spotify.
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Continuous Delivery is not a passing trend
You only have to say “big bang release” to me and it causes my blood pressure to rise. Arrrgggghhhhhh!!!! Too many bad memories! I’ve been involved my fair share of painful big bang releases to know that they should be avoided, but we get into a cycle that’s hard to break! Almost as though we…
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Take a deep breath…
…and post! First blog for stevesitton.com – check! Now to the list of everything else! I had thought of starting a blog for sometime, now I’ve finally taken the step from thinking to doing. The first challenge came quickly – coming up with a name for the blog! I originally put the blog on geekymanager.com…