Capability 11 / 18
DevOps & CI/CD
Shipping safely and often, with pipelines that catch problems before users do.
DevOps and developer experience aren't two competing disciplines — they're the inner and outer loop of the same delivery system. A pipeline that's fast and trustworthy changes how a team ships; one that's slow or opaque gets routed around, and CI quietly stops being the place bugs are actually caught.
Building that pipeline well means golden paths that are co-designed with the teams using them, not handed down — and shipping often enough that any single deploy is small, boring, and easy to roll back.
What this looks like in practice
- •Advanced CI/CD delivery systems designed around fast, trustworthy feedback loops
- •Golden paths co-authored with the teams that use them, not imposed from a platform team
- •Deployment frequency and change failure rate tracked together, not optimized separately
- •Rollouts designed to be small and reversible by default