Prioritizing Continuous Delivery

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Tony Kelly hosts our first episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton.

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, we ponder why prioritizing Continuous Delivery (CD) is essential for managing risk. We challenge the common instinct to reduce deployment frequency after failures, using a dentist analogy to explain how delaying deployments increases pain and risk by allowing unchecked changes to accumulate.

We advocate decoupling “deployments” (moving code) from “releases” (exposing features) using trunk-based development and feature toggles, which lets you test safely in production and avoid the deadlocks of complex dependency management.

Listen now to discover:

• The dentist paradox
• Guts on the table
• The dog and biscuit
• Steering with your knees

We also mentioned Bob's book, Achieving Continuous Delivery with TPF.