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How SDM’s Holistic Approach Connects Organizations and Streamlines Delivery Processes

DevOps.com

Since Jez Humble and David Farley popularized the term in 2010, continuous delivery has revolutionized software delivery practices. Creating mature continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines has helped enterprises deliver software that performs better, based on a long list of metrics.

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The Cost Center Trap

LeanEssays

By 2010, over 50% of firms’ capital spending was going to IT, up from 10-15% in the 1960’s. [1] Balance sheet metrics made their way into senior management metrics, so successful JIT efforts tended to make senior managers look bad. When IT metrics focus on cost control, digital transformations tend to stall.

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DevOps tools: Automation, Monitoring, CI/CD, and more

Altexsoft

Back in 2010, Amazon migrated its servers to the AWS cloud and launched Apollo code deployment platform. In this article, we’ll discuss the categories of tools existing for DevOps and look at instruments for continuous delivery/integration, testing, monitoring, collaboration, code management, and more. Continuous delivery (CD).

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The Infinite Loop Part I: The Problem

Wolk Software Engineering

The CHAOS Report examined thousands of software projects over three decades and found some very disappointing performance metrics: Over the last three decades, the success rate of software projects has never exceeded 38%. The success rate of software projects increased between 1994 and 2015 but has decreased since then.

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The Scaling Dilemma

LeanEssays

One of the earliest agile approaches, Extreme Programming (XP), includes technical practices such as Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration that help make frequent releases practical. In Continuous Delivery we find actionable advice on how to tackle the integration problem with techniques that scale across large networks of teams.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Customer-focused metrics were used to guide a team’s performance, and teams were expected to work both autonomously and asynchronously to improve customer outcomes. Dramatic advances in software engineering workflow can be traced to the 2010 book Continuous Delivery [22] by Jez Humble and David Farley.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

Agile and Lean Software Development: 2000 - 2010 It’s hard to believe these days, but in the mid 1990’s, developing software was a slow and painful process found in the IT departments of large corporations. It was exciting to watch the expansion of test-driven development and continuous integration during the decade of 2000-2010.