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Autonomy requires trust and delegation
This is the second of two articles that explores a key requirement for Progressive Delivery, autonomy. You can find the first article here. What is the work, really? The downside of autonomy is management. It seems like the downside might be chaos, but that is easier to solve than the reality of having to make…
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Autonomy, not anarchy
Autonomy works best when there’s a mechanism to stop failed ideas. We all have a passion project that we want to be working on, but not all things we are passionate about are going to serve the shared goal.
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Progressive Delivery requires alignment
The goal you’re aligning to needs to be broad enough that everyone can see their place in it, and narrow enough that they can tell what isn’t part of the goal. When you get something that well-defined, you can hold up every action and choice to it and tell whether it will help or hinder…
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Progressive Delivery starts with abundance
In a pervasive software world, the problem for both companies and users is not a lack of data, it’s a lack of metadata handles that allow us to manipulate the data in a useful and usable way.
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What can’t be automated?
We can’t automate what we don’t understand. Doing something manually is always an essential part of automating a process, and sometimes it’s hard for us to see all the parts and elements of a process that we want to automate.
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Automation is a part of Progressive Delivery
Progressive delivery tends to assume that you’re doing continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment. We have automated all the mechanical parts of being a release manager, leaving only the residual and not-at-all difficult emotional labor parts.
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The Value of Progressive Delivery
Progressive delivery doesn’t take the place of Agile, DevOps, or Continuous Delivery. Rather it builds on those. It’s a holistic approach that asks you to continue breaking down silos, and incorporating those lessons with this new point of view.
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Never finished: A manifesto on Progressive Delivery
What do we mean when we say “Progressive Delivery”? It’s a way to get curious about the whole lifecycle of your product, including after it leaves your control.
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