Engineering Organizational Improvement with Continuous Delivery Istvan and Bryan

ABOUT THE SESSION

The book Accelerate states, “Continuous delivery improves both delivery performance and quality, and also helps improve culture and reduce burnout and deployment pain.” Those of us who work this way know this is true. We also know that CD is a powerful tool for organizational improvement. Neither of these will be true if we aren’t using a real CD workflow. It is very common for teams and organizations to use incorrect definitions of CD. When they do, it harms outcomes, team morale, and is even causing CD to be banned in some organizations.

At the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit, several of us gathered at the Dockside Bar to discuss this problem we are witnessing. We formed a cross-industry group to try to help codify the minimum set of problems that need to be solved to see the benefits of continuous delivery in every context so everyone can live better lives. Three days later we published the first version of MinimumCD.org. A week later we accepted a pull request from one of the fathers of CD, Dave Farley.

In this talk, we will cover the set of fundamental problems to be solved to achieve CD and how working to solve those problems acts as forcing functions for finding and removing the waste and pain that so many organizations are suffering daily. Everyone in the value stream should live better lives, and solving these problems will go a long way to getting us there.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Bryan Finster
Defense Unicorns - Value Stream Architect
Bryan Finster is a software engineer with over 25 years of experience delivering highly available systems for large enterprises. He founded and led the Walmart DevOps Dojo which focused on a hands-on, immersive learning approach to helping teams solve the problem of “why can’t we safely deliver today’s changes to production today?” He is the co-author of “Modern Cybersecurity: Tales from the Near-Distant Future”, the author of the “5 Minute DevOps” blog, a frequent industry speaker on all aspects of DevOps, and one of the maintainers of MinimumCD.org.

Istvan Bathazi
Experienced Lead Software Engineer and DevOps Advocate at Palmetto GBA with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Enterprise Architecture, JAVA EE, Core JAVA and Software Development. One of the maintainers of MinimumCD.org