Process:

• Focus on the next most valuable thing
• Frequent releases (per feature or per increment)

Value:

• Faster time to market
• Flexibility of a Roadmap                                         

Consists of:

• Making sure a release meets expectations (UAT)
• Making sure no quality regression
• Making sure no features regression
• Go Live tasks

Ideal Environment:

Production-like environment + Changes delivered

Tasks:

• Analyze code to make sure it meets quality standards
• Test features delivered in previous releases
• Make sure old bugs don't re-appear

Tasks:

• Prepare a production "build" to deploy
• Deliver the build to the production environment
• Run deployment scripts
• Ensure no downtime during the deployment
• Test production environment to ensure no regression

Development base that has most of the routine automated. Out of the box.

Consists of:

• Making sure a release meets expectations (UAT)
• Making sure no quality regression
• Making sure no features regression
• Go Live tasks

Tasks to prepare the Ideal Environment:

• Take snapshot of the production (databases, file assets)
• Create a new environment from it
• Apply code changes
• Run deployment tasks
• Make URL of the environment accessible for UAT

Tasks:

• Analyze code to make sure it meets quality standards
• Test features delivered in previous releases
• Make sure old bugs don't re-appear

Tasks:

• Prepare a production "build" to deploy
• Deliver the build to the production environment
• Run deployment scripts
• Ensure no downtime during the deployment
• Test production environment to ensure no regression

• Automated security updates check
• Unified development environment
• Eliminates "sacred knowledge holders"