In this article I will share details about our last focus week and how it led to a breakthrough on a difficult topic.

Focus weeks are a tool for cracking difficult or complex topics as a team while fostering team collaboration and improving team culture.

If you do not test in production, your customers are the only ones, who do. While it sounds scary at first, testing in production is an important addition to pre-production quality assurance processes.

When moving towards a more continuous software delivery process, focus on evolving the culture instead of just automating the processes.

Decoupling deployments and releases gives you a better control about when system changes are made available to users and can help you to avoid complicated rollback processes in case, things go wrong.

Walls in your deployment process block value-flow and slow-down feedback cycles. Here is how you can detect and remove them.

Cross-unit team programmings are extremely valuable, both for developers and companies, but are often underrated by developers and managers.

Too much alignment will slow you down as the number of stakeholders increases. Creating structures that reduce the alignment needed will help you to scale your organisation.

How to set up your team structures for growth.

In this case study, we explore how PAYONE, a leading payment service provider, simplified and accelerated their deployment process to enhance efficiency and responsiveness in a regulated environment.