Deploy and release
September 20, 2017
Today I got a call from a friend that works in a big organisation. A bank with very old fashion and rigid processes for how software is handled and released.
Needless to say my friend ran into a wall of pain and trouble as he tries to introduce agile values of small things moving quickly though the value chain. Specifically the client was reluctant to release until everything is completely done - otherwise there's no value at all
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An old trick came to mind as I tried to help him with his conundrum:
There’s a difference between deploy and release
I had the same problems as my colleague at another client and we solved part of that by just making a clear distinction between deploying and releasing.
Deploying, in this context, is a technical activity. It means putting new versions of the code onto...