Deployment maturity levels

As software engineers, we love to develop features for making our customer lives easier, but until those features are available to end-users, it adds no value to the business. Therefore the deployment process is an essential part of succeeding as a development team.

With six years of experience in Continuous Delivery, this is how I would classify the maturity level for deployments:

Level 0 – YOLO (You only live once)

The deployment process is quite simple; the developer builds the code on his machines, copies…