Deliver Fast and Responsively

Rapid Responsive Delivery

Market winning businesses produce high quality products and services, release them to market quickly, and continuously adapt solutions based on feedback and market reaction. To delight customers and satisfy market demand, effective delivery depends on lean execution, immediate response to feedback, and near-zero-defect quality.

To support innovation or any higher business agility capability, enterprises must demonstrate the ability to deliver high-quality products rapidly and continuously — a capability we call Delivery Agility.

Components of Delivery Agility

What is Delivery Agility?

Foundational to Business Agility is the ability to ship high quality fast and responsively without losing market share to smaller, more nimble competitors and while retaining customer loyalty and referrals. This is what we call Delivery Agility. We identify three indicators of Delivery Agility:

The ability to build high-quality technology
The ability to deliver fast and responsively
The ability to thrill users

1. Build High-Quality Technology

At this level of competency, organizations:

Have a zero-defect culture with near-zero escaped defects
Leverage high test automation
Automate governance and technical debt tracking
Can implement push-button deployment to production with no human configuration
Leverage application analytics that provide detailed usage reporting

2. Deliver Fast and Responsively

At this level of competency, organizations:

Have a short cycle time from ideation to delivery
Demonstrate the ability to release to production frequently, if not daily then weekly
Retrospect and improve measurably all the time
Leverage Continuous Delivery and Deployment pipelines

3. Thrill Users

At this level of competency, organizations:

Select features intentionally and measure intended outcomes
Prioritize small increments that maximize customer value and satisfaction
Have a vision and roadmap driving value for specific user and buyer personas
Understand the difference between being responsive to users and being an order-taker

Our Transformation Solution

Delivery Agility is at the foundation of business agility. To help you deliver high-quality technology fast and responsively, we offer our DevOps Transformation solution. Our transformation solutions are cumulative, collectively yielding the set of organizational capabilities required for competitive business agility.

What’s Next?

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Delivery Agility Resources

Blog Post

The Relationship Between DevOps & Agile: “It’s Complicated”

Agile Amped Podcast

Let’s Stop Making People Feel Stupid

Agile Amped Podcast

Stack Overflow: “Technology is the Competitive Differentiator Now”

Agile Amped Podcast

Open Source and Agility at Microsoft

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