Continuous Delivery

Consultancy - Our Approach

APPROACH BLURB

Our Consulting Approach

We offer a wide variety of services and can offer solutions to difficulties you may face in your software development approach. Most consultancy engagements usually begin with an assessment, carried out through a series of workshops. These workshops identify: where best to focus efforts to make the biggest impacts; what improvements will be most effective for your team; and what additional services CD Ltd can offer.

ASSESSMENT & ANALYSIS

We usually structure assessments around a Value-Stream Analysis, and sometimes also assess your Continuous Delivery Maturity. These assessment activities are carried out as a series of workshops.

VALUE STREAM ANALYSIS

Value Stream Analysis

A core practice in the adoption of Continuous Delivery is to measure and improve (shortening) feedback cycles in the development process. The aim is to maximise the opportunities to learn, and improve. We use a Value-Stream-Analysis technique in our workshops to explore the current development process, from a variety of different perspectives. This mapping exercise gives us a structure that allows us to explore the development approach in some detail and to agree a rough value for how it takes for each step in the process. We can estimate the duration of the whole process - from idea to working software in the hands of your users, and identify opportunities for optimisation. The discussion and learning from this analysis is often more important than the output

CD MATURITY ASSESSMENT

CD Maturity Assessment

As one of a range of workshop activities, CD Ltd may use a CD Maturity Model - which is an assessment tool that some organisations find useful, to evaluate practices associated with software development as working for, or against, the adoption of Continuous Delivery, on a scale from “Regressive” through to “Expert”. Maturity models are somewhat simplistic and so don’t represent a precise measure of effectiveness. However, the exploration process is often more important than the output, and they can provide a broad view on where you are in your journey toward better practice and provide some ideas on what to try next.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Workshops

We can offer workshops on a wide variety of topics. The goal of these sessions is to be very interactive. We use these activities to listen, coach and encourage teams to gain new insights, inspire and motivate them to generate new ideas. These are coaching sessions as well as exploratory, giving your teams a broader and deeper understanding of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering practices and what it takes to establish them throughout your organisation

Continuous Delivery For Vendors

Continuous Delivery has been widely adopted by tool vendors as a unifying approach to software development. It has helped them to more clearly position their products, and target the value that they bring to their customers. Dave Farley is a world authority on this subject and so is uniquely positioned to offer a depth of practical understanding, consultancy on your product goals, and strategic advice. We can offer a broad view of the Continuous Delivery space and so can often identify complementary or competing technologies or suggest approaches to the use of your products that will enhance their value as part of a Continuous Delivery pipeline.

Keynote Talks

Dave Farley is a popular speaker on the international conference circuit, and is widely regarded as a thought-leader in the sphere of Continuous Delivery and Software Engineering. Dave also gives talks and presentations to internal company events, to kick-off a new project or programme, and to inspire discussion and adoption of new ideas.

A Day with Dave Farley

Booking a day for your team to spend with Dave Farley can help build energy for a new project and help your team learn and improve together. The day may include: a presentation to your whole development organisation; a series of targeted workshops; exploring specific problems and possible solutions; and/or, get Dave’s insight into organisation, architecture design and development approach.

BESPOKE TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Bespoke Training Programmes

CD Ltd has a wide range of training modules that can be organised into a flexible, bespoke training programme designed to meet your specific needs.