The document provides an introduction to continuous delivery presented by Damon Poole. It discusses reducing cycle times from months to weeks or days by optimizing for frequent delivery of value. Traditional functional silos are replaced by cross-functional teams organized around business outcomes and delivery of customer value. Kanban techniques like limiting work in progress and visualizing the flow of work help achieve continuous delivery.

1. Intro
to
Con=nuous
Delivery
Mass
TLC
February
13th,
2013
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2. Damon
Poole
• Chief
Agilist,
Eliassen
Group’s
Agile
Prac=ce
– Coaching:
Transforma=on
and
Tune-­‐ups
– Training
• 20
years
of
process
change:
small
co-­‐located
teams
to
mul=-­‐hundred
team
global
enterprises
• Founder
and
past
CTO
and
CEO
of
AccuRev
• Creator
of
mul=ple
Jolt-­‐award
winning
products
• Past
President
of
Agile
New
England
• Author
of
“DIY
Agile
Kickstart”
• Consulted
with
Ford
IT,
Orbitz,
Fidelity,
Capital
One,
ING
Direct,
and
many
others
• Taught
Agile
techniques
to
thousands
of
people
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3. What
does
it
take
to
get
a
hoYix/patch
to
your
customer?
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4. Cycle
Time,
aka,
Measuring
Delay
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5. The Cost of Delay
Delivery
Delay
Market No more
emerges value
You decide The user
to do it can use it
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6. The
Cost
of
Delay
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7. Cycle
Time
Integra=on
and
Prepara=on
Development
tes=ng
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
months
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8. A Typical Risk Mitigation Strategy That Can Increase Risk
• A
Project
is
Priori=zed
ader
gathering
requirements
and
doing
es=ma=on
for
mul=ple
projects.
• This
usually
takes
3,
6,
or
more
months.
• Requirement
gathering
and
scoping
for
mul=ple
projects
takes
=me
away
from
working
on
funded
projects.
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9. Cycle
Time
18
month
cycle
=me
Funding
(picking)
Doing
Integrate,
test,
Proposing
Prepara=on
Development
&
release
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
months
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10. Cycle
Time
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
months
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11. Cycle
Time
Pick
Pick
Pick
Pick
Pick
Pick
Prep
Prep
Prep
Prep
Prep
Prep
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do
Ship
Ship
Ship
Ship
Ship
Ship
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
month
itera=ons
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12. Cycle
Time
3
month
cycle
=me
Pick
Prep
Do
Ship
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1
month
itera=ons
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13. Load
Value
Delivery
Capacity
=
Value
Payload
/
Cycle
Time
Value
Deliver
Payload
Cycle
Time
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14. Value
Delivery
Vehicles
Load
Deliver
Cycle
Time
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15. Value
Delivery
Vehicles
Load
Deliver
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16. Moving
From
FUNCTIONAL
EFFICIENCY
to
VALUE
DELIVERY
EFFICIENCY
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17. Misaligned,
Func=onal
Goals
Func=onal
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Goals
Late,
Not
as
missing
Project
A
Project
B
relevant
as
scope
hoped
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18. Your
Team
for
the
World
Series
Project
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19. Organize
around
Business
Value
Delivery
✔
Line
of
✔
Line
of
Business
A
Business
B
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20. Kanban
backlog
on
coding
tes=ng
qccept
done
deck
Traveller
wants
2
Seller
wants
to
5
Traveller
wants
2
Traveller
wants
2
Traveller
wants
3
Traveller
wants
3
to
e-­‐mail
an
remove
an
ad
to
see
their
to
edit
a
booking
to
enter
a
to
register
with
airline
booking
upcoming
trips
booking
the
system
Tom
Tom
Bob
Sue
Traveller
wants
2
to
link
to
on-­‐line
Traveller
wants
2
Admin
wants
a
5
Traveller
wants
1
check-­‐in
to
e-­‐mail
a
hotel
report
of
site-­‐ to
delete
a
booking
wide
ac2vity
booking
Bob
Sue
Traveller
wants
2
to
link
to
cancel
a
booking
Traveller
wants
2
Seller
wants
to
5
Traveller
wants
2
to
e-­‐mail
a
car
show
an
ad
to
copy
a
2
booking
booking
Hotel
owner
wants
to
check
Sue
Bob
usage
data
Airline
wants
to
2
check
usage
data
Rental
agency
2
wants
to
check
usage
data
1)
Work
is
managed
visually
2)
Limited
work
in
progress
3)
Flow
is
pull-­‐based
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21. Kanban
in
Ac=on
Product
Mgmt
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$
Customers
/
Market

22. EVERYTHING
Con=nuous
Integra=on
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23. Product
Dev
Test
Deploy
Mgmt
Crea=ve
Test
Business
Design/Code
Releng
Design
Planning
Automatable
Data
Test/Debug
Test
Release
Gathering
Execu=on
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24. Team
Crea=ve
Automatable
Data
Build/Test
Release
Gathering
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25. Tool
Support
• Web-­‐based
Idea=on
tools
• Agile-­‐friendly
SCM
• Build
– Con=nuous
Integra=on
– DevOps
savvy
build/deploy
management
• Agile
Project
Management
• Test
automa=on
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26. Enterprise
Agile
ESCALATION
AGILE
OFFICE
MANAGEMENT
RELEASE
TEAM
/
OPS
LOB
LOB
LEADERS
CUSTOMERS
EPICS
I1
I2
I3
ARCHITECTURE
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27. Recommended
Books
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