Benefits of Continuous Delivery in Agile
- Faster time to market: Continuous delivery in agile helps in incremental releases to get features to users quickly in line with customer needs and market competitiveness.
- Increased Agility and Flexibility: The continuous delivery process helps in the ability to respond quickly to any requirement changes or market conditions. Smaller and frequent releases help to avoid longer wait time for integrating any new features and improvements.
- Improved Software Quality: Frequent testing and monitoring of delivered features with continuous delivery helps in a more stable and reliable software.
- Business Value: Continuous delivery leads to improved velocity, business value and higher productivity delivering value to customers.
- Consistent and Repeatable Process: Continuous delivery process relies in automated and standardized process to ensure consistency across cross functional teams which helps to maintain a reliable and repeatable release pipeline.
- Enhanced Collaboration: Faster and continuous feedback from continuous delivery helps in closer collaboration between all team members including developers, QA Team and all stakeholders.
What is Continuous Delivery (CD) in Agile?
Software delivery and deployment have evolved over the years from manual processes to automated processes. During the days of the manual delivery process, once the deployment to the production server is ready, a major update is done during the night or when no users are accessing the server and there would be long server downtime but using the agile continuous delivery method, small iterations of changes are added seamlessly with the automated delivery process. In this article, let us discuss the continuous delivery process in Agile.