deployment
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🚀 Accelerating or Decelerating?
Is your work accelerating or decelerating? This may be hard to measure, but in our gut we know. A few ideas: Where do we spend our time? Moving things forward, or just keeping things afloat? Are we releasing more or less often? How about t…
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☝️ What do we mean by "First"?
What do we mean by Release “First”? Several things: First in the timeline of development. First thing we focus on during implementation. First priority. Simply put, implement the Big Green Button before implementing the actual deliverable…
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🟢 What is in the Big Green Button?
As previously stated, the Big Green Button enables teams to quickly and confidently release. But what is the Big Green Button? Several things come to mind: Automation that translates code/design/docs/models into assets others can use. Auto…
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🟢 The Big Green Button
The word “release” can be a noun (what gets released) or a verb (the process of producing a release). “What” and “How”. Many teams produce complete high-quality releases that allow them to produce or deploy something at some point in time. …
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🚀 How to make releases painless
In the olden days, releases were a lot of work. The process involved manually building/testing, uploading to a distribution location, sending out notifications to interested parties, etc. Supporting multiple platforms meant even more work. …
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🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for?
Platform Thinking is for anyone who wants to take the friction out of creating, publishing, testing, integrating, and deploying products. The result? Value. Quality. Timeliness.
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🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development
Yesterday we talked about Test-Driven Product Development. Release-driven product development is another perspective. Build the release/deployment mechanism before implementing the design. Automate as much of the release as possible. This …
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🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value
How do we look at a product release? As a big one-time event, where we spend heroic efforts to pull it over the finish line? Or as a continuous flow of high-quality value into the product (even before the customer ever sees it) that is main…
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🚀 Do you own your deployment?
Saturday morning, I got a call from a customer – something was not working due to a bug we had deployed Friday (no we don’t have very good tests) 🤫. The fix was easy, I tested it locally, and then tried to push it to a Git hosting service w…