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Analysis for Continuous Delivery: Five Core Practices
Jez Humble
25 January 2012

Jez urges teams to move away from the all-or-nothing design of traditional software delivery approaches.

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Want to prove agile works? Practice Continuous Delivery!
Aaron Erickson
31 October 2011

Aaron Erickson, author of The Nomadic Developer explains why Agile development teams must deliver and keep delivering on a regular schedule. The surest proof of your team's practicing Agile methodology correctly is that you continue delivering working product.

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Test automation and Continuous Delivery
Ranjan D Sakalley
21 October 2011

Software testing and verification needs a careful and diligent process of impersonating an end user, trying various usages and input scenarios, comparing and asserting expected behaviors.This article explains various aspects of test automation and how it affects Continuous Delivery.

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But I Don't Want the Minimum
Aaron Erickson
22 September 2011

Does the word 'minimum' immediately raise your hackles? Aaron Erickson, author of The Nomadic Developer , emphasizes that learning to prioritize, getting to production early, and subsequently delivering in small increments are key disciplines in the practices of Agile and continuous delivery.

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Tired of Playing Ping-Pong with Dev, QA & Ops?
Jez Humble
10 May 2011

An overview of DevOps: how it enables effective risk management, why it is a key factor in Continuous Delivery, and how to implement it incrementally.

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Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating enterprise agility
Jim Highsmith
28 April 2011

The next horizon is extending agility from basic software delivery to continuous delivery and into the business itself, utilizing the advances in delivering software features early and often into a transformation of businesses to deliver complete solutions early and often.

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What DevOps Means for Enterprises
Jez Humble
18 March 2011

The organizational evolution of DevOps in medium and large businesses: moving from projects to products, the impact of capex/opex and governance, and getting over the false division of dev and ops.

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Five predictions for 2011
Jez Humble
4 February 2011

Jez prognosticates on cloud innovation, devops adoption, release management and the challenge in hiring.

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Continuous Delivery and ITIL
Jez Humble
29 November 2010

A look at how ITIL and Continuous Delivery can work very effectively together to support effective service management and enable rapid, reliable delivery.

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