Getting approval for CI/CD from your stakeholders

Even when stressing the importance of automation and educating your stakeholders on its importance, you might need to take action without official approval. Many software projects have started as a skunkworks project that a sole developer worked on without official approval. A developer can also work on a deployment pipeline automation task on his local machine or an unused machine if need be.

Starting a skunkworks project

The origins of the term skunkworks project is open for debate, but the general idea is that it is a project that is worked on in secret by a select individual or select individuals that is intended to bring innovation and change to an organization. It is not always possible for developers to get approval for a given task and they may need to resort to alternative tactics to get their point across. 

Imagine Bob from the development team has an idea to write a CLI application that will help on-board third-party developers to...