The Unicorn Project

CHAPTER 12

• Monday, October 13

Over the past week, it’s clear to Maxine that Data Hub has figured out how to deliver better value, sooner, safer, and even happier. But it’s also clear that a new constraint has emerged. The constraint used to be getting environments—no one could ever get one, and when they did, it was never quite right. Then the constraint became testing, which started only when Development was finished with all their features; finding and fixing defects would take weeks instead of the hours or days it takes now.

Now it is obvious that the constraint is deployment—they are now able to quickly get features production-ready, but they still have to wait weeks for Ops to deploy their code into production.

Figuring out how to get ...