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Agile and Scrum have become standard approaches in software development.<\/p>\n\n

Work is planned and organised into iterations\/cycles\/sprints, usually lasting two weeks.<\/p>\n\n

As one sprint is being worked on, the next is usually already planned and the following one is being discussed.<\/p>\n\n

It's common for code deployments and releases to follow the same pattern.<\/p>\n\n

When a sprint is finished, the changes are released.<\/p>\n\n

But that means if a task is worked on at the start of the sprint, it won't be available for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n\n

It may be longer if the sprint is longer or if there are steps like manual testing that also happen.<\/p>\n\n

What if a change is needed or a bug is found?<\/p>\n\n

Is that going to be at least another two weeks before it can be addressed?<\/p>\n\n

Do you need to start using hotfixes and dealing with multiple branches and merge conflicts<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n

I suggest separating your planning and work schedules from your deployments.<\/p>\n\n

Deploy as often as possible, even during a sprint.<\/p>\n\n

You want your feedback loop to be as small and quick as possible.<\/p>\n\n

But, importantly, deploying code is different to releasing features<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

If you need to do manual testing, use feature flags to separate deploying the code from releasing the feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Then, when it's ready to go live, you only need to enable the feature flag - no code deployment needed.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Agile and Scrum have become standard approaches in software development.<\/p>\n\n

Work is planned and organised into iterations\/cycles\/sprints, usually lasting two weeks.<\/p>\n\n

As one sprint is being worked on, the next is usually already planned and the following one is being discussed.<\/p>\n\n

It's common for code deployments and releases to follow the same pattern.<\/p>\n\n

When a sprint is finished, the changes are released.<\/p>\n\n

But that means if a task is worked on at the start of the sprint, it won't be available for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n\n

It may be longer if the sprint is longer or if there are steps like manual testing that also happen.<\/p>\n\n

What if a change is needed or a bug is found?<\/p>\n\n

Is that going to be at least another two weeks before it can be addressed?<\/p>\n\n

Do you need to start using hotfixes and dealing with multiple branches and merge conflicts<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n

I suggest separating your planning and work schedules from your deployments.<\/p>\n\n

Deploy as often as possible, even during a sprint.<\/p>\n\n

You want your feedback loop to be as small and quick as possible.<\/p>\n\n

But, importantly, deploying code is different to releasing features<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

If you need to do manual testing, use feature flags to separate deploying the code from releasing the feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Then, when it's ready to go live, you only need to enable the feature flag - no code deployment needed.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "45f407c2e5e4e066da156bd49eb7991a", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }