Transforming a Six Month Release Cycle to Continuous Flow

This paper tells the story of how the team managed to speed up delivery whilst raising quality at the same time. conject used to release complete modules of their Internet platform once every six months. Customers were forced to wait for months to get access to new features. Once they arrived, the big bang releases disrupted the user experience due to bugs lurking in the new software. Despite what seemed to be an impossible task, the team successfully transformed their software development process to deliver a stable and continuous flow of small releases. Now features are delivered to customers more quickly and with much higher quality.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AGILEDC
• Authors: Matthias Marschall
• Keywords: AGILEDC 2007, Big Bang Releases, Complete Modules, Software Development Process, Software Engineering