Suggested Leadership Actions

Inspect

• Familiarize yourself with the extent of automation in your delivery/deployment pipeline.

• Interview your teams to determine how much of their effort is going into repetitive delivery/deployment activities that could be automated.

• Inventory the activities in your delivery/deployment process that are still being done manually. Which activities are preventing your teams from having push-button deliveries?

• Investigate to determine whether your team’s work is planned to a level that supports frequent integration.

• Consider measuring the lead time from code change to software deployment.

Adapt

• Encourage your staff to integrate their work frequently, at least daily.

• Create a Definition of Done that supports automated delivery and deployment.

• Create a plan for your teams to automate as much of their build and deployment environments as they can.

• Communicate to your staff that their work to keep the delivery/deployment pipeline working is a higher priority than creating new functionality.

• Set a quantitative goal to reduce the lead time from code change to deployment.