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.