Scrum, Kanban, and the delivery pipeline
How does the Continuous Delivery pipeline that we have described in this chapter support Agile processes such as Scrum and Kanban?
Scrum focuses on sprint cycles, which can occur biweekly or monthly. Kanban can be said to focus more on shorter cycles, which can occur daily.
The philosophical differences between Scrum and Kanban are a bit deeper, although not mutually exclusive. Many organizations use both Kanban and Scrum together.
From a software-deployment viewpoint, both Scrum and Kanban are similar. Both require frequent hassle-free deployments. From a DevOps perspective, a change starts propagating through the Continuous Delivery pipeline toward test systems and beyond when it is deemed ready enough to start that journey. This might be judged on subjective measurements or objective ones, such as "all unit tests are green."
Our pipeline can manage both the following types of scenarios:
- The build server supports the generation of the objective...
