This document discusses the benefits of deploying software changes more frequently using a Kanban workflow with feature branches. Frequent "super duper" releases can reduce queues, improve developer satisfaction, help product owners validate ideas faster, and improve quality. It proposes using feature branches to isolate changes and deploying directly from development to production after manual testing on a staging environment. This continuous deployment approach aims to speed up delivering customer value.

1. Unstoppable releases with
Kanban
Andrii Shumada
Sr. Software Developer at
eagleeye
eagleeye_s
eagleeyes91@gmail.com

2. Why we need to deploy super duper
often?

3. less queues
no waiting till next
scheduled release
more tasks get done
Speed

4. Developer satisfaction
code with feauture is isolated
less planings
less stress

5. PO’s satisfaction
validate your hypotheses
faster
create more A/B tests
sell your features earlier
get more money $$

6. Quality improvement
Bugs can be found faster
Bugs can be fixed faster
More concentrated testing
Less risks

7. Recruitment
Hey, we deploy every day!

8. Centralized Workflow

9. Feature Branch Workflow

10. Manual testing
(before) Prod
Staging

11. Manual testing
(after) Prod
Staging-feature-1
feature-branch-1
Staging-feature-2
feature-branch-2
Staging-feature-3
feature-branch-3

12. Scrum Board
5 columns brings queues

13. The way to production
Open In Progress Under review QA Done Release
Wait for
review
Wait for
QA
Wait for next
scheduled release
Planning
Actual
work

14. How it should be
No QA*
No Review*
*Possible, bot not required,
merged into In Progress

15. Wait a moment...
QA is not required?

16. There should be a lot of bug requests from users

17. When we can release that?
PO/Manager
(before) (after)
Is it in production?

18. Split big tasks to fit 1-2 days
release cycle
Split application to services

19. Don’t plan and estimate
too much

20. Useful links
https://github.com/debitoor/tcmerge
https://github.com/debitoor/teamcity-merge
https://waffle.io
YouTube: How to deploy to production 10 timer a day
eagleeye
eagleeye_s
eagleeyes91@gmail.com