Phased delivery strategy
A phased delivery strategy introduces a system, product, or change through successive planned stages, often with progressively broader scope.
Practical Automation with PowerShell: Effective scripting from the console to the cloud
A phased approach is a technique for developing an automation through successive stages that provide incremental improvements and benefits.
- How it is used
- Frames automation work as incremental delivery that yields benefits before a complete end-to-end solution exists.
- How deep it goes
- Explains staged delivery through reusable building blocks, feedback, adaptation, and a progressively refined cleanup script.
- Examples
- Uses a skateboard-to-car progression and a web-server log archive and cleanup automation.
- What you can do after
- Apply it to evolve PowerShell automations from simple scripts into reusable building blocks while incorporating feedback.
Think Like a Software Engineering Manager
A phased approach is a delivery technique that divides a larger change into sequenced stages with progressively broader scope.
- How it is used
- Uses sequenced scope and controlled exposure to unblock dependent work and make deployments safer.
- How deep it goes
- Explains staged scope, environments, bake time, canaries, and toggles, but stops short of implementation details.
- Examples
- Uses a royalty-calculation dependency, alpha and beta environments, pre-production bake time, canaries, and feature toggles.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure staged releases that reduce dependencies, gather stability feedback, and limit production exposure.
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Think Like a CTO
A method of implementing a plan through successive stages with limited commitments and intermediate results.
- How it is used
- Uses proposals to secure executive commitment while preserving input, control, and flexibility.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates staged proposals and intermediate wins, without specifying implementation mechanics.
- Examples
- Uses a CEO proposal with multiple outcomes, staged commitments, and benefits demonstrated along the way.
- What you can do after
- Apply phased delivery strategy by presenting relevant options and demonstrating wins before requesting full commitment.
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Related concepts
- deploymentused by · Deployment is the process of making software, models, or other computational systems available to operate in a target environment.
- automationused by · Automation is the execution of tasks or processes by machines or software with reduced direct human intervention.
- riskaddresses · Risk is the possibility and potential impact of an adverse outcome arising from uncertainty.
- feedbackconfigured by · Feedback is information about an action, system, or outcome that can inform evaluation, decisions, or subsequent behavior.
- dependencyaddresses · A software dependency is a component, resource, or prerequisite on which another software component or operation relies to function or proceed.
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