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Continuous delivery as a direction

Continuous delivery as a direction

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Continuous delivery as a direction

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If you ever get a chance to study how Toyota works, or if you spend much time around lean manufacturing, you'll hear people talking about this idea of single piece flow. Now single piece flow is to car manufacturing as continuous delivery is to software development. Without going into too much detail about how single piece flow works, I can tell you that for most manufacturing companies, it's not regarded as something that's really attainable. Some plants can get close or even achieve single piece flow for a little while, but it's really hard to hold on to. If some have achieved single piece flow over the long term, they're more of a unicorn than something really repeatable. So if you know that something is unattainable, why try? Why start down that road? Aren't we supposed to set realistic goals? Well, the thing is, single piece flow is not really a goal, it's a direction. In lean manufacturing, there's this concept of true north and moving intentionally towards true north as it…

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