Your Migration Journey

A learning path for migrating to continuous delivery, built on years of hands-on experience helping teams remove friction and improve delivery outcomes.

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Start with your problem, not the guide. Not sure what is wrong? Answer a few questions.

New here? Read Start Here or follow a Learning Path for a guided reading sequence.

Diagnose

  • Triage - Answer a few questions to find the symptoms that match your situation.
  • Dysfunction Symptoms - Observable problems organized by testing, deployment, flow, and visibility.
  • Anti-Patterns - Practices that undermine delivery, with steps to fix each one.

Migrate

  • Migration Phases - Assess, Foundations, Pipeline, Optimize, Deliver on Demand.
  • Improvement Plays - Standalone plays for common delivery challenges. Run any play in isolation or as part of a migration.
  • Agentic CD - Constraints and practices for AI agent-generated changes.

Reference

  • Reference Section - Practices, metrics, testing, pipeline architecture, glossary, FAQ, and resources.
Start Here

You need the right framework that drives the right mindset to use CD and agents correctly

Triage Your Problems

Identify the delivery problems your team is experiencing - without a facilitator.

Dysfunction Symptoms

Start from what you observe. Find the anti-patterns causing it.

Quality and Delivery Anti-Patterns

Start here. Find the anti-patterns your team is facing and learn the path to solving them.

Migrate to CD

A phased approach to adopting continuous delivery, from assessing your current state through delivering on demand.

Improvement Plays

Focused, standalone improvement plays teams can run independently or as part of a larger CD migration.

Agentic Continuous Delivery (ACD)

Extend continuous delivery with constraints, delivery artifacts, and practices for AI agent-generated changes.

Reference

Practice definitions, metrics, glossary, and other reference material.

Architecting Tests for CD

Test architecture, types, and good practices for building confidence in your delivery pipeline.

Learning Paths

Curated reading paths through the CD Migration Guide, organized by role and goal. Follow a path end-to-end or jump in at the step that matches where your team is today.

Team Chatbot

A ready-to-use facilitator chatbot that helps your team diagnose delivery problems and navigate the CD migration journey - works with any LLM.

Credits

Contributors who have helped shape this migration guide.

Changelog

Notable updates to the CD migration guide.

Under Construction

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