Your Migration Journey

A learning path for migrating to continuous delivery, built on years of hands-on experience helping teams remove friction and improve delivery outcomes.

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This guide expands on the practices defined at MinimumCD.org and the production-tested playbooks from the Dojo Consortium. Each adapted page includes attribution to its source material.

Diagnose

  • Start Here - CD and ACD become diagnostic tools when you take the offsetting questions seriously.
  • Triage - Answer a few questions to find the symptoms and anti-patterns that match your situation.
  • Dysfunction Symptoms - Observable problems teams experience, organized by testing, deployment, flow, and visibility.
  • Anti-Patterns - Common practices that undermine delivery performance, with concrete steps to fix each one.

Migrate

  • Migration Phases - A phased path from Assess through Foundations, Pipeline, Optimize, and Continuous Deployment.
  • Systemic Defect Fixes - A catalog of defect sources with earliest detection points and systemic prevention strategies.
  • ACD - Constraints and practices for AI agent-generated changes, plus the AI adoption roadmap.

Reference

  • Practices - Core CD practice definitions from MinimumCD.
  • Metrics - Delivery metrics definitions.
  • Testing - Testing types, patterns, and best practices.
  • Glossary - Key terms and definitions.
  • FAQ - Common questions about continuous delivery and this migration guide.
  • Resources - Books, talks, and further reading.
  • Credits - Contributors who have helped shape this guide.

Start Here

You need the right framework that drives the right mindset to use CD and agents correctly

Find Your Symptom

Answer a few questions to narrow down which dysfunction symptoms match your situation.

Dysfunction Symptoms

Start from what you observe. Find the anti-patterns causing it.

Quality and Delivery Anti-Patterns

Start here. Find the anti-patterns your team is facing and learn the path to solving them.

Migrate to CD

Guides for adopting continuous delivery - whether you are starting fresh or migrating an existing system.

Pipeline Reference Architecture

Pipeline reference architectures for single-team, multi-team, and distributed service delivery, with quality gates sequenced by defect detection priority.

Systemic Defect Fixes

A catalog of defect sources across the delivery value stream with earliest detection points, AI shift-left opportunities, and systemic prevention strategies.

Agentic Continuous Delivery (ACD)

Extend continuous delivery with constraints, first-class artifacts, and practices for AI agent-generated changes.

CD Practices

Concise definitions of the core continuous delivery practices from MinimumCD.

Metrics

Detailed definitions for key delivery metrics. Understand what to measure and why.

Testing

Test architecture, types, and best practices for building confidence in your delivery pipeline.

DORA Capabilities

The capabilities that drive software delivery performance, as identified by DORA research.

CD Dependency Tree

Visual guide showing how CD practices depend on and build upon each other.

Glossary

Key terms and definitions used throughout this guide.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about continuous delivery and this migration guide.

Resources

Books, videos, and further reading on continuous delivery and deployment.

Credits

Contributors who have helped shape this migration guide.

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