“Daily Production Releases” Clarified

“Daily Production Releases” is mandatory for real Agile/DevOps.

This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.

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Below is one reader’s comment on my article “Release Early, Release Often” Clarified”:

That is fairly common feedback. This article will answer this question and clarify “Daily Production Releases”.

Table of Contents:
  ∘ 1. “Daily Production Releases” can mean multiple times a day.
  ∘ 2. “Daily Production Releases” is a capability and the team’s confidence in regression testing, not a schedule 
  ∘ 3. “Daily Production Releases” means production deployment on the same day when a change is made.
  ∘ 4. Automated End-to-end (via GUI) regression testing is the enabler of “Daily Production Releases”
  ∘ 5. How “Daily Production Releases” is possible? 
  ∘ 6. “Daily Production Releases” means a complete change to the software development process.
  ∘ 7. Most CIOs, Managers, Tech leads, and Software Engineers chickened out in front of “Daily production releases”

1. “Daily Production Releases” can mean multiple times a day.