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Every company is unique and has its own specific challenges when it comes to changing the way things work, like implementing Continuous Delivery. This maturity model will give you a starting point and a base for planning the transformation of the company towards Continuous Delivery. After evaluating your organization according to the model you need to set the goals and identify which practices will give your organization the best outcomes.

Amplifying feedback can help you catch failures before they make it downstream, and accelerate your time to resolution. One easy way to speed up feedback is by automating notifications so that teams are alerted to incidents or bugs when they happen. See how Atlassian’s Site Reliability Engineers do incident management and practice ChatOps for conversation-driven development.

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Continuous Delivery 3.0 Maturity Model (CD3M) is a framework for assessing an organization’s maturity in implementing continuous delivery practices, created by the Netherlands National Institute for the Software Industry (NISI). It was created in light of recent trends and best practices in software development, such as cloud native and DevOps. Moving to intermediate the level of automation requires you to establish a common information model that standardizes the meaning of concepts and how they are connected. Automatic reporting and feedback on events is implemented and at this level it will also become natural to store historical reports connected to e.g. builds or other events. This gives management crucial information to make good decisions on how to adjust the process and optimize for e.g. flow and capacity.

Many commercial tools strive are kitchen sink solutions targeting large scale enterprise development. Often times these solutions create complications and bottlenecks for small projects that do not need to collaborate with 5000 developers and multiple product lines, or multiple versions. On the other hand some companies need greater central control over the build and release process across their enterprise development groups. Another characteristic of advanced continuous delivery maturity is the use of quantitative measures of software performance and quality, along with metrics that track the health and consistency of the CD process. Identify and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for better control over software acceptance and rollback criteria in test and in live production. For example, continually monitored application performance KPIs enable an CD system to automatically roll back a release that exhibits problems in production.

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If there are practices you do not want to adopt you need to analyse the consequences of excluding them. It is also important to decide on an implementation strategy, you can e.g. start small using slack in the existing process to improve one thing at a time. However, from our experience you will have a better chance of a successful implementation if you jump start the journey with a dedicated project with a clear mandate and aggressive goals on e.g. reducing cycle time. Build and deployment is of course core to Continuous Delivery and this is where a lot of tools and automation come into the pipeline; this is what is most is commonly perceived when Continuous Delivery is discussed. At first glance a typical mature delivery pipeline can be very overwhelming; depending on how mature the current build and deployment process is in the organization, the delivery pipeline can be more or less complex. In this category we will describe a logical maturity progression to give structure and understanding to the different parts and levels it includes.

Structuring Continuous Delivery implementation into these categories that follows a natural maturity progression will give you a solid base for a fast transformation with sustainable results. At this stage, DevOps teams — continuous delivery experts all adopt some form of DevOps structure — have fully automated a code build, integration and delivery pipeline. They’ve also automated the infrastructure deployment, likely on containers and public cloud infrastructure, although VMs are also viable. Hyper-automation enables code to rapidly pass through unit, integration and functional testing, sometimes within an hour; it is how these CD masters can push several releases a day if necessary. This five-phase continuous delivery maturity model borrows its structure from the CMM, progressing from a base level of no effective capability through beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert stages. It’s a path to the advanced capabilities befitting the DevOps major leaguers that deploy multiple times a day or even multiple times an hour.

Stage 4: Automated throughout

When IT reaches a point where CD is possible, they are finally in the best position to deliver value to their clients in the shortest turnaround time and maximum level of quality possible within that environment; at least from a technical perspective. Schedule a demo with one of our specialists and start improving your devops practices. Continuous Planning is the automation of the Agile planning process, to enable backlog item prioritization, refinement, allocation and reporting for Agile ecosystems. Employees in high-performing DevOps teams were 2.2x more likely to recommend their organization as a great place to work. The first step in moving to DevOps is to pull from agile principles – people first, then process and tools. The tools listed aren’t necessarily the best available nor the most suitable for your specific needs.