Author: Jez Humble
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You are doing Continuous Delivery when:
- Your software is deployable throughout its lifecycle
- Your team prioritizes keeping the software deployable over working on new features
- Anybody can get fast, automated feedback on the production readiness of their systems any time somebody makes a change to them
- You can perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment
Benefits:
- Reduced Deployment Risk
- Believable Progress
- User Feedback
The earlier you catch defects the cheaper they are to fix.
Asking experts to do boring and repetitive, and yet technically demanding tasks is the most certain way of ensuring human error.