Category: Automation
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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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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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I, for one, welcome our new robot underlings
The thing I want you to understand about automation is that it’s not magic, it’s just a different, sometimes more-efficient, way to do the same work. When Google predicts the next couple words of a sentence you’re writing in email, it’s not generating that out of nothing, it’s basing it on the millions and millions…
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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.