It’s Hard To Keep A New Team Doing Continuous Delivery

Sometimes I get an opportunity to show a team how to use a technology that not only solves a business problem, but I really like! In this case it was continuous delivery to deploy business intelligence dashboards to production. When a client of mine was burned by a prior vendor that couldn't deliver their software project, they needed to see progress made quickly. The software product was supposed to be a set of complicated visual dashboards that pulled in data from a bunch of different healthcare systems. At the time deploying these types of software systems was a manual, error prone process. So I had built a framework to automate releases. This would help us follow continuous delivery. But the lead on the project was resistant at first, and the client wasn't sure they were ready. In this episode, I share how the continuous delivery framework I used earned trust at first...but was eventually abandoned. I still had many things to learn about how to support my own software frameworks! Join my Patreon:  https://thrivingtechnologist.com/patreon Learn about one-on-one career coaching with me: https://thrivingtechnologist.com/coaching TechRolepedia, a wiki about the top 25 roles in tech:  https://thrivingtechnologist.com/techroles The Thriving Technologist career guide:  https://thrivingtechnologist.com/guide You can also watch this episode on YouTube. Visit me at thrivingtechnologist.com

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If working on software teams feels complicated, frustrating, and filled with politics - that's just because your eyes are open. Unfortunately, you do need to make a living! So how do you keep up with the demands of your tech job and still have a life outside of work? Hi I'm Jayme Edwards, and I've had a 26 year career in the software industry filled with thrilling victories - and maddening drama. With so many problems in our industry, the more money I made the more ridiculous people's expectations were. I’m sharing the biggest mistakes I made in my career, and the insights I learned along the way. This podcast is the audio version of the Thriving Technologist YouTube channel, where you can find new episodes every Monday. Podcast versions appear on Wednesday of the same week. Subscribe and join us! Let’s help each other grow a community of healthy software developers.