Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Question 1

What is the continuous delivery pipeline?

Answer 1

Represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to guide new functionality from ideation to an on-demand release of value.

Question 2

What does CDP stand for?

Answer 2

Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Question 3

What competency does CDP belong to?

Answer 3

Agile Product Delivery

Question 4

What are the elements of CDP?

Answer 4

Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment, Release on Demand

Question 5

Continuous Exploration focuses on…

Answer 5

creating alignment on what needs to be built. Converging on requirements for an MVP and testing to see if that’s the right thing to satisfy the initial hypothesis.

Question 6

Continuous Integration focuses on…

Answer 6

…taking features from the ART, implementing them, and committing them into version-controlled code.

Question 7

Continuous deployment…

Answer 7

…takes the changes from the staging environment and puts them into a production environment.

Question 8

Release on Demand is…

Answer 8

…making value available to customers together or in a staggered fashion based on market and business needs.

Question 9

What elements does value stream mapping use for analysis?

Answer 9

Active time, Wait time, and percent complete and accurate

Question 10

What is CALMR?

Answer 10

A DevOps mindset that guides continuous value delivery by improving Culture, Automation, Lean Flow, Measurement, and Recovery

Question 11

Why should I separate deployment from release?

Answer 11

1) It enables testing background and foreground processes in the actual production environment before exposing new functionality to customers.
2) It also makes timing of release features a business decision.