Being an elite dev team isn’t just about merging faster, it’s about being able to deliver consistently. While velocity is the primary metric these days that marks elite teams - this is still in a world where all pull requests are created equal and undergo the same CI/CD gating and branch protection. But what if it doesn’t have to be this way?

Developer happiness and retention is often based on the type of work a team is doing and the amount of frustration involved trying to get code merged––where some of these merges are as simple as minor config fixes, version upgrades or documentation edits. In this session, we will discover how elite teams are flipping the paradigm through evolving their CI/CD to CM, continuous merge, by optimizing non-coding time and customizing how Pull Requests are treated based on their unique characteristics and impact on production systems. You too can be one pull request away from dev enlightenment and happiness.