cdCon2021

"CI/CD" is becoming mainstream. Various departments are beginning to recognise that silos are harmful and are trying to collaborate. They bring in consultants who guide them on being Agile, set up Scrum teams, advice on CI/CD tools, help set up processes. Depending upon the sense of urgency, this becomes org-wide either from day one or from lessons learned from a pilot project. The measures of success aren't quite well understood and are interpreted and customised to whatever the implementation team feel they can manage to meet within their constraints. Worse, most teams as well as organisation management lack the exposure to know what questions to ask in order to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement. This talk explains why one sees delivery delays, defects in production, integration hell, security bottlenecks, etc having "CI/CD", and the corrective measures.