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It's been common for me whilst working on software projects to have work organised into sprints or cycles - a period, usually between 1 and 3 weeks, where the team is working on stories and tasks for that project.<\/p>\n\n

In my experience, those changes are usually released at the end of that cycle. But it seems that's not always the case; see release sprints<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

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A specialised sprint whose purpose is to release deliverable results; it contains stories specific to release activities and finishing undone work. A release sprint usually contains no additional development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

If we worked in two-week cycles and released at the end of each one, it would be at least two weeks before a change could be deployed to production. But what if we wanted to follow continuous deployment and release more frequently? Maybe daily or hourly?<\/p>\n\n

Instead of waiting for a release sprint, if we released multiple times within a single sprint, how would this fit into or affect the process?<\/p>\n\n

Does the release cycle need to be tightly coupled to the sprint cycle or can they be separate and independent of each other?<\/p>\n\n

I've worked on projects - including a current one - where I've done multiple releases in a sprint, so of course, it can be done from a technical perspective, but how do we get the best from both processes - whether they work together or separately?<\/p>\n\n

This is something that I'm going to continue to experiment with, iterate on, and learn more about going forward.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

It's been common for me whilst working on software projects to have work organised into sprints or cycles - a period, usually between 1 and 3 weeks, where the team is working on stories and tasks for that project.<\/p>\n\n

In my experience, those changes are usually released at the end of that cycle. But it seems that's not always the case; see release sprints<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

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A specialised sprint whose purpose is to release deliverable results; it contains stories specific to release activities and finishing undone work. A release sprint usually contains no additional development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

If we worked in two-week cycles and released at the end of each one, it would be at least two weeks before a change could be deployed to production. But what if we wanted to follow continuous deployment and release more frequently? Maybe daily or hourly?<\/p>\n\n

Instead of waiting for a release sprint, if we released multiple times within a single sprint, how would this fit into or affect the process?<\/p>\n\n

Does the release cycle need to be tightly coupled to the sprint cycle or can they be separate and independent of each other?<\/p>\n\n

I've worked on projects - including a current one - where I've done multiple releases in a sprint, so of course, it can be done from a technical perspective, but how do we get the best from both processes - whether they work together or separately?<\/p>\n\n

This is something that I'm going to continue to experiment with, iterate on, and learn more about going forward.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }