Beyond the Minimums

Recommended Resources

Minimum CD is not the first step in a maturity model. However, it is still the bare minimum upon which many more practices should be built as appropriate to your context. To aid your journey in going beyond Minimum CD, we maintain a list of resources that focus on Continuous Delivery which we have found very useful in our own journeys.

These contain the basics for getting started, but also the knowledge needed to become an “Elite” CD organization. They are specific to solving the problem of “why can’t we go to production today?”

Reference Type Source
Continuous Delivery Pipelines Book Dave Farley
Continuous Delivery Playbooks Website Dojo Consortium
Continuous Delivery YouTube Channel Video Dave Farley
Continuous Delivery: Anatomy of the Deployment Pipeline Website Dave Farley
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation Book Dave Farley & Jez Humble
Engineering the Digital Transformation Book Gary Gruver
Implementing Continuous Delivery Website Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, & Gene Kim
Real Example of a Deployment Pipeline in the Fintech Industry Video Dave Farley
Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design Book Scott Ambler, Pramod Sadalage
Release It! Second Edition Book Michael Nygard
Trunk-Based Development And Branch Abstraction Book Paul Hammant
Trunk-based Development Website Paul Hammant
Continuous Integration Certification Blog post Martin Fowler
5 Minute DevOps: What is a Production Issue? Blog post Bryan Finster
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