Demonstrating why CI/CD is important

The importance of a CI/CD pipeline cannot be understated and developers will need to demonstrate its importance by providing metrics, reporting, and in general educating leadership on the importance of automation.

Metrics and reporting

The following diagram is a depiction of charts and graphs that you can use to demonstrate to your stakeholders why CI/CD is important. It is a good idea to develop graphs and charts as visuals are very convincing:

 

Typically, at the executive level at companies, the numbers and the PowerPoint slides must demonstrate why something is important. Developers should be able to illustrate with metrics—charts, diagrams and any other visual forms—how CI/CD can improve existing processes. There exist enterprise solutions already that can help generate this information, but a development team can aggregate this information in an Excel spreadsheet.

Let's say that Bob from the development team has decided that enough is enough and the...