Bottom-up Adoption of Continuous Delivery in a Stage-Gate Managed Software Organization
Eero Laukkanen, Timo O. A. Lehtinen, Juha Itkonen, Maria Paasivaara, Casper Lassenius · 2016
Context: Continuous delivery (CD) is a development practice for decreasing the time-to-market by keeping software releasable all the time. Adopting CD within a stage-gate managed development process might be useful, although scientific evidence of such adoption is not available. In a stage-gate process, new releases pass through stages and gates protect low-quality output from progressing. Large organizations with stage-gate processes are often hierarchical and the adoption can be either top-down, driven by the management, or bottom-up, driven by the development unit.