Continuous Delivery Pipeline is needed to provide continuous release of value to the end user. Agility & DevOps principles and behaviors working in Alignment is the need of today to deliver & delight our customers. This session highlights the set of behaviors needed for Leadership to Enterprise Agility and Prosperity with Continuous Delivery pipeline. The pipeline consists of four practices: Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and Release on Demand applied in synchronization and cadence to build a rhythm for the enterprise applying Lean and Agile values and principles very much like the four elements of the Grandfather Clock with date; the hour, minute and seconds arms remaining always in sync and predictable heartbeat (cadence) to the date (milestone / release) perspective.

Dream to Delight is the concept to cash value stream practiced with proven success across 4 industries: Utilities, Media, Banking and Mortgage. It is a set of 7 Highly Effective Ds: Dream, Discover, Define, Design, Develop, Deploy & Delight.

This session is about leading enterprise portfolios to agility through lean-agile transition. It talks about the journey highlighted as steps & activities taken at each “D” stage aligning to promise of agility: highest business value fastest to market with built in quality. I do highlight the importance of context and perspective and thereby the need of choices and options at respective “D” stages to increase visibility, transparency and thus improve accountability across the program.

It does seem to me “The Silver Bullet” applying the 7 Ds across four industries as a leap to Enterprise Agility, however I trust to raise awareness and agreement towards the importance of coaching and mentoring to impact and sustain agility in an organization with people and their mindsets still internalizing and going through their respective “J” curves of acceptance and adoption.