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    The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days
    The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days
    The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days
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    The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days

    By Andrew Phillips, Michiel Sens, Adriaan de Jonge and Mark van Holsteijn

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    Turning good ideas into marketable software quickly is now a business imperative for every enterprise. Delivering software features faster and with high quality is the first critical step. The subsequent step is to rapidly collect feedback from users to guide the next set of ideas for further improvements. Critical software development objectives such as these set the stage for The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days, Instead of Months.

    The book champions the concept of Continuous Delivery in enabling organizations to build automated software delivery platforms for releasing high-quality applications faster. The book also presents how Continuous Delivery is a set of processes and practices that radically removes waste from the software production process and creates a rapid and effective feedback loop with end users.

    Given the current competitive landscape with apps and app delivery, every organization should consider the game-changing approach presented by The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery can reduce time-to-market from weeks and months to days or even hours.

    Within the book, the authors capture the complete overview of Continuous Delivery in a clear and understandable way that give readers the insights and steps to bring their organizations to the next level.

    Adopting Continuous Delivery is critical because the process sits at the leading edge of software development thinking. While most of the literature and discussions on Continuous Delivery focus on the technical aspects, this book presents a process that crosses boundaries and helps to make businesses more efficient.

    Start the path to Continuous Delivery today and experience the benefits of delivering business value quickly!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 7, 2014
    ISBN9781483530970
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      The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery - Andrew Phillips

      The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery

      Delivering business value in hours, not months

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Foreword by Dave Farley

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 Meet Ostrich Insurance, the Traditional Company

      Chapter 3 Meet the Competitor: Future Insurance

      Chapter 4 The Role of the Business

      Chapter 5 An Introduction to the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

      Chapter 6 Test: Move the Tests Up Front

      Chapter 7 Development: Instant Visibility

      Chapter 8 Deployment: Make it a Non-event

      Chapter 9 Provisioning: Pipeline Foundations

      Chapter 10 Release Coordination: Orchestrating your Pipeline

      Chapter 11 Dare to Think Differently

      Chapter 12 Getting Started with Continuous Delivery

      Chapter 13 Final Thoughts

      Chapter 14 Do’s and Dont’s

      Glossary of Terms

      About the Authors

      About the XebiaLabs

      Preface

      Continuous Delivery is a set of processes and practices that radically removes waste from your software production process. It enables faster delivery of high-quality functionality and sets up a rapid and effective feedback loop between your business and your users. As a result, you will deliver better software and have more satisfied customers.

      In a competitive economic environment, every organization should at least consider this game-changing approach. It marks the difference between being a business being able to keep up or being a business setting the pace.

      This is the first book on this subject that

      focuses on measurable business benefits,

      is written for readers with a non-technical background,

      gives concrete advice on how to get started.

      Continuous Delivery is often considered solely as a technical topic. In reality, executive support, buy-in across the organization and hands-on participation from the business are equally, if not more, essential for successful Continuous Delivery implementations.

      This is the first book that helps managers understand the principles behind Continuous Delivery, explains the transition to a Continuous Delivery organization and gives practical advice on how to start benefiting from the dramatic improvements Continuous Delivery provides.

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      Foreword by Dave Farley

      Continuous Delivery is at the leading edge of software development thinking. Most of the literature and discussion focusses on the technical aspects, but this is a process that crosses boundaries and helps to make businesses more efficient. This book is aimed at the IT manager or business person who wants to understand the Continuous Delivery approach.

      Software development is an extremely difficult undertaking. Software is unlike most endeavours with which we are familiar. Creating software is a technically demanding process. It often demands advanced problem solving techniques and high levels of creativity. On top of all of that, software is remarkably fragile: a tiny error, one wrong character in the equivalent of a chapter, is enough to prevent it from working.

      As a result of these demands, the software industry has often struggled to effectively meet the needs of the businesses that it serves. It has been far too common for software development projects to be late, deliver poor quality and deliver software that doesn’t meet the needs of it’s users. There have been many attempts to tackle this problem, but over the past few years there has been a significant change. Learning from the scientific method, advanced quality-focussed processes and experiments in software development process we have evolved techniques that we can finally claim, with some authority, work.

      Continuous Delivery is the most effective approach to developing high quality software that we have found so far. This is the process that some of the most successful companies in the world now use to gain market advantage. The early adopters were web companies, including some of the largest and most successful, but increasingly this process is now being adopted in all types of organization,

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