Enabling a Continuous Deployment Mindset

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A single cross‑functional team modernizes a monolith used by ~1,000,000 users generating ~30,000,000 cases/year, moving from 1 deployment per quarter -> multiple commits per day by shipping an MVP with the strangler pattern, identical staging, automated unit/acceptance tests, automated smoke tests and feature toggles; deployments run via Jenkins + Slackbot and rollbacks are taught; the first production release finishes in a few hours, daily continuous deployment follows, and blameless timeline retrospectives drive safety improvements.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:30TEAM STRUCTURE
3. 2:53LEGACY SYSTEM MODERNIZATION
4. 4:07THE INITIAL MINDSET
5. 5:39HOW WILL WE TACKLE THIS HUGE SYSTEM?
6. 11:36WHERE IS THE MINDSET NOW?
7. 14:10THE CURRENT MINDSET
8. 16:39CREATE A "COLLECTIVE DEPLOYMENT" MINDSET
9. 18:40THINKING SMALLER
10. 21:09AND WHAT IF WE DO BREAK PRODUCTION?
11. 22:48TIMELINE RETROSPECTIVES
12. 25:02MAKE PAIN POINTS TRANSPARENT
13. 25:50REACHING CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT
14. 27:16THE CUSTOMER MINDSET
15. 28:55THE CUSTOMER IS A PART OF THIS JOURNEY TOO
16. 31:27KEY TAKEAWAYS

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