Discovering the Case for Continuous Delivery

Throughout this chapter, we have explored some of our favorite practices that help us with product discovery: discovery of the Why using impact mapping, discovery of the Who using human-centered design practices, and discovery of the What using event storming and emerging architecture. We started to explore some of the How's using the non-functional map. The final set of practices we'd like to introduce promotes how we are going to develop our software, and it does so, based on metrics.

One of the most common questions we get from our customers is how they can release their software to users faster and more frequently. Often, they have adopted agile techniques for delivery (for example, they may be using the Scrum framework) but still only seem to be able to do one or two releases to production every year. Why is that?

The first clue may be to heavy a focus on the delivery framework. As we explained in Section 1, Practices...