Badrinath Janakiraman & Akshay Karle - Continuous Delivery: A Value System, Not A Destination

Talk at PIPELINE Conference 2015, London

All too often we hear teams talk about Continuous Delivery as a destination. There are questions asked along the lines of what are the things a team needs to do in order to qualify as doing Continuous Delivery. We believe this is a flawed line of questioning. Continuous Delivery is not a destination that is arrived at by doing a fixed set of steps. We posit that Continuous Delivery is an axiom adopted by teams that informs their choice of architectural principles, the space of available designs, the selection of development practices, the choice of tools and most importantly, the culture of collaboration that they embrace. Thought of in this way, we believe Continuous Delivery can have as much of an impact on our software delivery process as testability and TDD have on our development processes.