Tidbits about CD

Actionability

Optimizing for developer happiness — by Chad Dickenson was one of the talks that had a lot of influence on me when starting with Continuous Delivery. It talks about how “easier to ship” brings both happiness to the team and in-turn steady flow of value to the customers.

Optimise for Happiness

Following is a story, a real incident, that Peter Drucker mentions in his book Concept of the Corporation.

Getting the right things done

The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker is about getting the right things done. Five habits for the same are:

• Managing time — continually monitoring and improving how time is spent
• Choosing what to contribute to the…

Courage and Accountability

Bottom line: code quality is the responsibility of the people who actually write the code (otherwise known as…

Simplicity and Reliability

The code is a liability, not an asset. The debt begins for a team the moment the first line of code is written…

No Silver Bullet

I usually get the below questions during my talks about Feature Toggles or Expand/Contract Pattern: