Moving to a DevOps culture and adopting continuous delivery has well known benefits. Unfortunately, those benefits are not realized by many organizations. One of the primary causes of this failure to meet expectations is a lack of solid fundamentals.

In this talk, attendees will learn about engineering practices which form a key foundation for building a DevOps culture, as well as effective continuous delivery pipelines. Like many things in software engineering, these practices are often dependent on one another in such a way that partial adoption isn’t enough.

Among the topics covered:
- Branching strategies
- Test driven development
- Running tests in parallel
- Pipeline ownership
- Trust but verify using automation
- Deploying incomplete code

This talk is primarily designed for people who would benefit from a holistic overview of the practices required for effective continuous delivery. There will be real world examples as well as resources to learn more about each area.