Delivering software is exciting, but usually for the wrong reasons: it’s stressful, frantic, and risky. You might think that Continuous Delivery would make this a million times worse, but it actually brings an aura of calm to the process, letting high-quality software changes flow unimpeded. No longer an exotic practice of the mystic monks of Etsy and Facebook, Continuous Delivery is taking hold even in famously laggard places (think gov.uk). It isn’t because of extreme requirements for speed - although this motivated the pioneers - it is because the shift in perspective is incredibly powerful for structuring effective teams and processes. In this session, you will see how Agile teams benefit from developing a Continuous Delivery pipeline and, drawing on examples from my experience and research, practical steps for your own team. Borrowing from the concept of mindfulness, this talk aims to bring some clarity and simplicity to the messy problems of software delivery.

1. Zen and the Art of
Continuous Delivery
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Elizabeth Ayer
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2. Pitying
Gaze
Smug
Smile
And Don’t Get Me
Started On This
Facial Hair
Anatomy of a Hipster
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5. Hmmmmm…
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7. Continuous Delivery
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9. Don’t stockpile pain
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11. The hard work
happens early
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12. Version
Control
Continuous
Integration
Release
Management
Validation Production
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Dev, Test, Review

13. Continuous Delivery
as a Process
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14. Mindfulness (supposedly) develops:
awareness of what you are doing
approach of curiosity and wonder
choices about how you react
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15. Mindfulness 101
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Mental training that improves attention and
self-regulation.

16. Mindfulness 101
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Effectiveness demonstrated in peer-reviewed
journals

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18. Mindfulness 101
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Three measurable components: awareness,
acceptance, disidentification.

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20. Step 1: Observe
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23. Step 2: Change
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Create Conditions
for Change

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Fogg Behaviour Model

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26. FAQ: What are the
hard parts?
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28. FAQ: I’m in, how do I
convince everyone else?
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29. Resources
▪UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Centre Free Guided Meditations
http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22
▪The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh (Random House)
▪Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley (Addison
Wesley)
▪The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your
Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford (IT
Revolution Press)
▪The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
and Jeff Cox (Gower Publishing Ltd.)
▪Database Lifecycle Management e-Book https://leanpub.com/
database-lifecycle-management/
▪https://puppetlabs.com/sites/default/files/2015-state-of-devops-
report.pdf
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30. Credits
Our Fair Share of Hipsters! Love SF by Christopher Michel https://
www.flickr.com/photos/cmichel67/9428306270/ CC BY 2.0
Bruce Lee statue on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong Oraz Studio
https://www.flickr.com/photos/burleydude/5306854502/ CC BY-NC
2.0
Karate Kid catches a fly by Toby Bradbury https://www.flickr.com/
photos/mrlerone/81216913/ CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Unbox/Unwrap. Pralus Papouasie by Everjean https://
www.flickr.com/photos/evert-jan/4036496631 CC BY 2.0
Icons made by Dave Gandy and Freepik (http://www.flaticon.com/
authors/dave-gandy and http://www.flaticon.com)
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