Join ThoughtWorks, renowned as one of the pioneers and leaders in the evolution and practice of Agile Software Development, as we present our Continuous Delivery workshop.
8:00am - 9:00am | Registration
9:00am - 10:30am
- Some short case studies of typical delivery environments: ones in which releasing software takes a long time and is painful, and ones which continuously deliver new software. Root cause analysis of slow, risky releases
- How Things Ought To Be, using examples from several projects
- The value proposition of continuous delivery
- Questions & Answers
10:30am - 10:45am | Break
10:45am - 12:00pm
- A brief refresher on continuous integration, with particular reference to how to integrate it with the rest of the delivery process
- Why branching in version control is inimical to continuous delivery. Using incremental development, a superior alternative to version control branching which allows for application evolution. Example from Go
- Interactive exercise: take various architectures and team structures and discuss how to apply branch-by-abstraction to enable continuous delivery
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch Break
12:00pm - 2:20pm
- Building deployment pipelines for component-based architectures, including dependency management
- Going live: how this differs from deployment. A/B testing and business metrics
- Data management and migration
2:20pm - 2:40pm | Break
2:40pm - 5:00pm
- Environment and Infrastructure management, including provisioning, management, and monitoring - part 2
- Managing continuous delivery Continuous improvement. How to implement a deployment pipeline through modeling the delivery process. How to evolve the pipeline, and your organization's delivery process.
