Build Transformation across an Organization
My most recent project was helping a major online retailer to mature their build process as part of a wider effort to improve their IT effectiveness through the injection of development best practices.
When we came onboard manual intervention was needed for any of their builds or deployments to work and so it was rare for more than a couple of builds or deployments to be completed successfully in a day. Now we often have up to 1,000 builds running every day - what’s more the majority of them now pass!
This article looks at a few of the techniques we’ve had to put in place to enable this transformation and what we’ve learnt along the way.