Executive briefing: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble

Businesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of users as fast as possible, while making sure that they keep their production environments stable. Continuous Delivery is a revolutionary and scalable agile methodology that enables any team, including teams within enterprise IT organizations, to achieve rapid, reliable releases through better collaboration between developers, testers, DBAs and operations, and automation of the build, deploy, test and release process.

Jez Humble will start out by discussing the value of CD to the business, inspired by the lean startup movement. He will then present the principles and practices involved in continuous delivery, including value stream mapping, the deployment pipeline, acceptance test driven development, zero-downtime releases, and incremental development. He will cover how CD is enabled by an ecosystem including Devops, cloud computing, agile testing, and continuous deployment. Finally he will talk about how continuous delivery can co-exist with ITIL and compliance in an enterprise environment.

About the speaker: Jez Humble

Jez Humble is a Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies. His focus is on helping organizations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices.