The Agile Executive

Colleague Jim Van Riper drew my attention to a point Kent Beck made in a recent presentation: Flickr deploys every 30 minutes.

The point Kent makes fits nicely with two themes that have been discussed in this blog:

• Number of active releases
• Releasing “always”

Between fast development and fast deployment I am starting to think in terms of software as water. Software could and should continuously flow on demand from the R&D lab to the customer. Such uninterrupted flow in the feedback loop between developer and end-user makes Agile extraordinarily powerful.