The Three As of Supporting Your Development Team
Summary
It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in — retail, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace, manufacturing — software has become a strategic lever for success, and your developers are explicitly tied to your ability to capture value (i.e., drive revenue). Doing away with manual input enables teams to significantly reduce human error and allows developers to spend more time on what they do best — designing applications that drive revenue and customer satisfaction. Additionally, using automated progressive rollouts wherever applicable enables teams to manage an update’s “blast radius” by controlling the number of users exposed to new production code. If the continuous deployment system uncovers a problem, it automatically rolls back the software to a previously designated version, limiting or even preventing application downtime. Since reliable deployments are tied directly to revenue generation and customer satisfaction, CFOs can easily calculate the cost of downtime compared to the upfront technology investment.