Summary
In this chapter, we looked at the activities that trigger the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. With Continuous Exploration, the ART examines the marketplace and the wants and needs of its customers to generate ideas for new products or new features.
The process begins with the understanding that development is really a series of incremental build-measure-learn cycles that start by creating a hypothesis of the customer value that can be achieved.
The collaborative process then begins for product management and the system architect. Product management collaborates with the customer to gain a greater understanding of the customer and marketplace. The system architect researches the hypothesis to understand the impact that the changes will have on the architecture.
When research is complete, the ART will take what it has learned and create features. They will elaborate on these features, place them into the Program Backlog, and prioritize them. A set of the highest sequenced...
