cdCon+GitOpsCon 2023

In this hyper-dynamic, digital-first world, the time to deliver features that delight customers has significantly reduced. Deployment velocity has become one of the essential measures that indicate the productivity and efficiency of the organization and, by extension, its culture. However, just focusing on delivery speed is not enough. The value that is generated per release is equally important. Customer satisfaction is critical for retention and profitability, requiring product leaders and teams to be sensitive to customer experience and feature fatigue. Speed to value has become a critical measure of success in this experience-centric world. In this panel, we will explore the continuous delivery paradox - where organizations must balance business value with the speed of delivery. We will discuss how measures such as deployment frequency and mean time to deployment quickly become vanity metrics if the business value delivered is low. We will also discuss how to optimize value streams and their path to production around speed to value.